LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Panaghiotis
MARCH 15TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 8.40 P.M. information was received from the coastguard that a steamer had stranded S.E. of the coastguard station at Jury’s Gap.
A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with...
Eugine Schnider
BEMBRIDOE, ISLE OF WIGHT, and SOUTHSEA, HAMPSHIRE. — During a strong S.W. gale and heavy sea on the 12th March, a message was received stating that a large vessel was being driven rapidly ashore at Hayling Island and that unless assistance...
John
Just after day- break on the 12th November a schooner- rigged vessel was observed coming in from the eastward, and as a strong S.E.
by E. wind was blowing a watch was kept on her. From time to time she was lost sight of in...
Northness
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 7.15 in the morning of the 27th of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore a mile west of Rue Point, and a few minutes later she was reported to be blowing S.O.S. on her whistle. The motor...
Flying Foam
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—On the morning of the 21st January the Penmon coastguard telephoned that a schooner, although showing no distress signals, was anchored in a very dangerous position about four and a half miles E. by S. of Trwyn Du...
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Flamborough, Yorkshire.—27th December, 1938. At about 11 P.M. the coastguard reported to the life-boat station that three rockets had been seen between Bempton lookout and Speeton coastguard station. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very...
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Torbay, Devon. — At 6 P.M. on the 19th September the Berry Headcoastguard reported that a man had fallen over the cliff at Berry Head on to a ledge close to the water. He had been helping three others, who had got into difficulties when...
Northern Queen, of Lowestoft
Aldeburgh, and Lowes toft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 14th February, 1938, the Aldeburgh motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 8.30 A.M. on information from the Aldeburgh coastguard that a fishing smack was in distress several...
Alderman Thomas E. Purdy, Colwyn Bay
By the death on 26th October, at the age of seventy-nine, of Alderman Thomas E. Purdy, J.P., president of the Colwyn Bay branch, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most distinguished honorary workers. For many years he worked...
Category: Obituaries
A Motor Launch
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. -— On the afternoon of the 2nd September the coxswain, who knew that the motor launch which attends on the residents of Steep Holm Island was away at the island, kept a look out for her, as a fresh S.S.E. breeze...