LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launceston, of Sheilds, and Artic Hero, of Goole
During very severe weather on the llth February the Life-boat Huddersfield went off, in reply to signals from the Hasborough light- ship, and brought ashore 15 men who had formed part of the crews of the barques Launceston, of Shields, and...
Newland
GROOMSPORT.—On the 19th. May, at 10 A.M., the wind blowing hard from the N.E., the smack Newland, of Kilkeel, riding to her sole remaining anchor on a lee shore, in Ballyholme Bay, hoisted a signal of distress, and the Life-boat Florence...
Helena Mena
PALLING, NORFOLK.—A message by telephone was received on the 14th August, reporting that a large barque was aground on the Hasborough Sand. The Life-boat Hearts of Oak was launched at 8.15 a.m., and found the barque Helena Mena, of London,...
St Monan
The Life-boat Catherine Swift was launched on the 3rd June to the assistance of the barque St. Monan, of Stavanger. During a thick fog the barque ran on to the Typet Ledge and on her signals being heard steps were taken to send...
Lorenzo
At 1.30 A.M. on the 17th December a telephone message was received, stating that a vessel was ashore in Hoy Sound, and that assistance was required. The crew of the Motor Life-boat John A. Say were assembled, and the Life-boat proceeded to...
Awards to Honorary Workers
DURING September and October the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers, in recognition of their services in the cause of the Institution : —• To THOMAS E. PURDY, Esq., Honorary...
Category: Awards
Sir William Hillary: "A Son of All Countries."
THE Spanish Society for Saving the Shipwrecked has named the new Motor Life-boat which it has stationed at Malaga, near Gibraltar, the Sir William Hillary, after the founder of the Institution, Colonel Sir "William Hillary, Bt., who...
Category: Articles
Mr. Linton Thorp, K.C.
THE Committee of Management have lost a very active member by the sud- den death, on the 6th of July, at the age of 66, of Mr. Linton • Thorp, K.C., LL.B., J.P., Recorder of Saffron Walden and Maldon, and at one time a judge in Egypt and...
Category: Obituaries
Olive and Agnes
Sunderland, Co. Durham. — In the afternoon of the 17th November the coxswain saw two cobles in difficulty off Hendon. A N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain. The motor life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin put out at 2.50 A...
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DOCTOR TAKEN Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 12.45 P-mon 12 th April, 1964, the honorary medical adviser asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take him to Colonsay at 2 p.m. to attend the resident doctor there.
The...