LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dorothy and Mary
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress were seen in the bay at 8.30 P.M. on the llth December during a very heavy gale from the W.N.W. The Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off and found the schooner Dorothy and Mary, of Carnarvon, coal laden from...
A Swedish Award
IN April, 1951, the Longhope life-boat rescued the crew of forty of the motor tanker Oljaren, of Gothenburg, in a service lasting twenty-three hours.
The Institution awarded its bronze medal for gallantry to the coxswain...
Category: Awards
Saved from Diphtheria
Three children were dangerously ill with diphtheria on an island off the west coast of Ireland. The proper drugs were not to be got on the island and the children would have been dead in a few hours. The Arranmore life-boat took the doctor...
Category: Articles
Sea Urchin and Rosalie
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, just after the life-boat Herbert Leigh had towed in the fishing boat Rosalie, the coxswain, who was on pilotage duty in Barrow docks, noticed that another fishing boat...
Colston
Dfracombe, Devon. At 5.50 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the m.v. Colston was seriously ill and needed hospital treatment, and asked if the life-boat...
Paviroma
Weymouth, Dorset.— About 7.55 in the morning of the 8th of August, 1948, the Wyke Regis coastguard tele- phoned a message received from the British steamer Megara that she was standing by the yacht Paviroma, of Southampton, fourteen miles...
Catherine Shaun, of Fleetwood
Caister, Norfolk - At 8.45 p.m. on 22nd July, 1968, a life-boat helperinformed the motor mechanic that a radio message from the trawler Catherine Shaun of Fleetwood had been intercepted, reporting that she had an injured man on board who...
Brighton
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE.—On the 17th March, the Life-boat Honourable Artillery Company was called out by signal guns.
She was launched at 5 P.M., and was towed to the north-east part of the Gunfleet Sands where the steamer...
Matilda Upton
The Motor Life- boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 8.15 A.M. on the 28th November as a message had been received from the Coastguard that a barge was in distress some miles north of Cromer. A strong N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy...
Pussy Galore
At 3.58 p.m. on 12th August, 1969, the coastguard informed the staff coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties off Minster Boom. The lifeboat 44-001, on temporary duty at Sheerness, immediately slipped her moorings in a moderate south south...