LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Isallt
At 10 P.M. on the night of the 15th October, during a whole N. by E. gale with a very heavy sea—one of the worst gales for some years—distress flares were seen to the S.W. of Moelfre Island. They came from the schooner Isallt, of Skibbereen,...
The S.S. Orchis
30th November.
The s.s. Orchis, carrying a crew of nine, put out from Par with a cargo of china clay for Dundee and Aberdeen. She sprang a leak and began to founder, and her crew took to the ship's...
The Spanish Steam Trawlers Evaristo Perez and Teresa Camposa
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. — During a thick fog on the afternoon of the 2nd May sirens were heard sounding continuously.
A moderate east breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Mary Stanford was launched at...
Harry Richardson
Caister, Norfolk. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1960, the life-boat mechanic noticed a vessel apparently aground on the north end of Scroby Sands. There was a moderate south-easterly wind and sea, and the tide...
Annual Awards 1976
The Maud Smith Bequest for the bravest lifesaving act by a lifeboatman in 1976 has been made to Crew Member Glyn Roberts of Porthdinllaen for the rescue, last August, of two boys who were trapped on the cliffs. Glyn Roberts climbed almost...
Category: Awards
Bonnie Lass
PLEASURE BOAT RUNS AGROUND Ballycotton, Co. Cork. The life-boat coxswain was fishing in his motor boat Star of the Sea a quarter of a mile southwest of Ballycotton lighthouse on the morning of Thursday the 8th of August, 1963, when he saw...
The Norwegian Coaster Sonnodd
Norwegian coaster towed off reef by Mallaig lifeboat On 16 April 1991, coxswain Tommy Ralston of Mallaig lifeboat station sighted from his house the Norwegian coaster Sonnodd heading for the reef to the north of Mallaig...
The British Airways Helicopter G-BEON (1)
Crashed helicopter FALMOUTH COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of St Mary's lifeboat station. Isles of Scilly, at 1250 on Saturday July 16. 1983, that the British Airways helicopter G-BEON was overdue at St Mary's...
Livonia and Bon Espoir
Selsey, Sussex.—On the morning of the 18th July the coastguard reported a small steamer in distress about eight miles in a north-westerly direction from Selsey look-out. Half a gale was blowing from the S.W., and the sea was rough. The motor...
Lifeboat Services
CREW TRAPPED AND INJURED BY PIER SUPPORT Atlantic damaged while saving girls trapped in heavy surf under pier For the first time in the history of the RNLI the three-man crew of an Atlantic class lifeboat have been awarded a Silver and two...
Category: Services