LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary Cook
GIRVAN, N.B.—At noon on the 3rd March the smack Mary Cook, of Campbeltown, was seen to be drifting from her moorings at the north of the harbour, and was in imminent danger of being blown out to sea. The master of the smack, who was on shore...
Finetta
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 8.55 on the evening of the 26th of April, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the S.S. Emsworth had wirelessed for the help of the life-boat. She had picked up a man from the yacht Finetta, of Southampton. The...
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Swanage, Dorset - At 3.48 p.m. on 29th March, 1969, the coastguardreported that two girls were cut off by the tide below Old Harry rocks.
The life-boat Rosa Wood and Phyllis Lunn, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Ain Mara
Campbehown, Argyllshire. — Shortly before eleven in the morning of the 19th of July, 1949, the Southend coastguard telephoned information from a farmer that a small yacht had run aground on the Arranman's Barrells Reef, Sound of Sanda,...
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Saved from drowning IN THE EARLY EVENING of Saturday September 12, 1981, two girls, Leanne aged 10 and Lorna aged 8, were playing near the water's edge at Splash Point, to the east of Watchet Harbour mouth.
The weather...
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Lifeboat provides inflatable and first aid in team effort for fallen climber Members of Anstruther lifeboat crew can be made out on the foreshore in this photograph providing first aid while a helicopter prepares to lift an injured climber...
Janet Worthington, Lady Louisa Pennant, and Crest
In response to signals of distress, the Life-boat Charley Lloyd was twice launched on the night of the 31st March last, and brought ashore the crews, numbering in all ten men, of the schooners Janet Worthington, of Buncorn, Lady Louisa...
Constitution
On the 21st July, the ship Constitution, bound from Liverpool to New York, with passengers and general cargo, struck on the Bank off Arklow. The life-boats at Arklow and Wicklow went off, with the view of rendering assistance. The vessel was...
The American Steamer Jonas Lie (1)
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DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. Both lifeboats were called to the help of the American steamer Jonas Lie, which had been torpedoed, off Grassholme Island, but they were recalled as all her crew had...
Queen's Commendation
THE Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct has been awarded posthumously to Joseph Bell; Stanley Graham; John Joseph Johnstone; and Alexander Black Ramsay.
The attempted rescue in which these four men, who were...
Category: Awards