LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Faroese Motor Vessel Mjoanes
MARCH 8TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 4.37 in the morning, the coastguard telephoned that a rocket had been fired by a vessel ashore on the west side of Cairnbulg Beacon. She was the Faroese motor vessel Mjoanes,...
Soldiers' Gratitude.
A reader in "The Folkestone Herald", who watched collectors on life boat flag day, said: "I noticed that not one single service man passed without buying an emblem, and in at least three instances I heard soldiers tell sellers...
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The Shooner Admiral Hood
On the 18th No- vember, the schooner Admiral Hood ran ashore on Yarmouth beach; a line was thrown over her by the Coast-guard, by means of the rocket apparatus, and the life- boat of the Institution was hauled off to her, when the crew, 5 in...
Marie Flore
MAY 5TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At about midnight on the 4th May information was received from the Padstow coastguard that a convoy had been attacked from the air about ten miles N. by W. of Stepper Point, and that one of...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WM. HENRY TRIPP, on his retirement, after serving 12J years as Bowman, 3J years as Second Coxswain, and nearly 14 years as Coxswain of the Porthoustock Life-boat, a Framed Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To MATTHEW...
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INJURED TEEN REACHES SAFETY
TENBY | 9 APRIL
Tenby all-weather lifeboat crew raced to the aid of a 14-year-old girl, who had fallen on rocks at Barafundle Beach. Suffering suspected back and neck injuries, including a broken...
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Halcyon (1)
Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.45 A.M. on the 27th September, 1939, the Deal coastguard reported a motor barge drifting ashore to the N.E. of their station. A heavy sea was running with a strong easterly wind. At 7.5 A.M., the motor...
Several Speed Boats, Welsh Lady III and a Cabin Cruiser
RACE CALAMITY Beaumaris, Anglesey; Rhyl, Flintshire; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.
On nth July, 1965, thirty-two speed boats were taking part in a race at Llandudno when a south westerly wind of near gale force sprang up,...
Lillian
NIGHT SEARCH THE life-boat at Buckie, BanfFshire, was launched on 8th August, 1971, because the 20-foot motor ketch Lillian, which had left Findochty at 3 p.m.
for Hopeman, had not arrived at her...
Spurt
Moelfre, Anglesey.—6th December. At 6.20 P.M. a message was received from Point Lynas that the 3,000-ton Norwegian steamer Spurt was in distress in the Moelfre roads. A whole N. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and the weather was...