LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lynx
Stromness, Orkney.—At about 6.10 P.M. on the 16th July, 1939, a message was received from the Broughness coastguard that distress signals had been heard in the Pentland Firth. This was confirmed by a wireless message from a trawler saying...
Robina
Cromarty.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 20th of October, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had run ashore off Arder- sier and needed help. At 5.10 the life-boat James Macfee put out. The sea was rough, a gale...
Rosalind
The Life-boat Coxswain at Hythe telephoned to the Dover Coxswain at 2 A.M. on the 1st July that a small yacht was making a distress signal by continuously sound- ing her fog-horn about half a mile off the Hythe Life-boat House. As the Hythe...
Dan O’Connell
NOVEMBER 6TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
During the afternoon the motor fishing boat Dan O’Connell, of Arklow, with a crew of five, ran out of fuel as she was coming in, and anchored. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
A Fishing Boat (1)
TEIGNMOUTH.—On the 20th December the Life-boat China rescued the crew of a fishing boat, 3 in number, who had been overtaken by a high wind and sea, and were in danger of being wrecked on the bar off the port, on which a heavy sea was...
Effort
BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Life-boat Sobin Hood of Nottingham was launched at 12.30 A.M. on the 31st December, and rescued the crew, consisting of two men, from the smack Effort, of Berwick, which had stranded on the North Steel Bocks...
Helene Lohden and Restitution
Shortly before 1 A.M. on the 23th January the Coast- guard reported that signals of distress had been fired by the St. Nicholas Light-vessel. As quickly as possible the crew of the No 1. Life-boat Mark Lane were assembled, and the Life-boat,...
Acknowledgment
THE photograph of the presentation of the Centenary Vellum at Appleclore, which was reproduced in the last issue of The Lifeboat, was taken by Mr. R. L.
Knight, photographer of Barnstaple, and was reproduced by his kind...
Category: Articles
Strathcoe
On the 4th of February, 1959, the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat rescued the crew of fourteen of the steam trawler Strathcoe. For this service, a full account of which appears on pages 222-3, Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick was awarded the silver...
Daphne
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.55 on the morning of the 15th of May, 1957, the coastguard reported that the steamer Ewell'"h.a& picked up a small motor boat named Daphne, with three men aboard her, seven and a half miles north-west of...