LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cymba
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 10.15 on the night of the 31st of August, 1955, the life-boat motor mechanic noticed flares between Goose Rock and Lesser Saltee Island. At 10.35 the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched.
The...
A Motor Boat
Appledore, Devon. At 4.18 on the afternoon of the 19th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the second coxswain that two boys were on a sandbank on the river Taw after being cut off by the tide. The life-boat Violet Armstrong left her moorings...
Cornel (1)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and Minehead, Somerset.—At 7.40 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1955, the Tenby coastguard rang up the Tenby life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Cornel, of Cardiff, bound for Bristol with a cargo of...
Marie Leonhardt
The German steamer Marie Leonhardt, of Hamburg, whilst bound from Scotland to Genoa with a cargo of coal, stranded on the Goodwin Sands, during a strong E.S.E.
gale and a very heavy sea, on the 17th January. Signals of...
Contents
Contents RNLI News.
Volume L Number 496 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Lifeboat Services.
Editor: EDWARD WAKE-WALKER Headquarters: Royal National...
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Ituna
YACHT TOWED WITH EIGHT ABOARD Weymouth, Dorset. At 8.10 on the evening of the 21st July, 1962, the pier master informed the coxswaiu that a yacht was in distress off Ringstead Bay.
A fresh west-south-west wind was blowing...
A Sand-hopper
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—On the morning of the 26th November, 1938, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore off the Dysinni River. A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The pulling and sailing life-boat Jones-Gibb was launched at...
None (2)
Donaghadee, Co. Down - On 18th March, 1969, it was reported that four days previously two birdwatchers had been landed on Old Lighthouse island and, due to unfavourable weather conditions, it had not been possible to take them...
Coniston
At 6.20 in the morning of the 15th November signals of distress were seen from a schooner riding in Ramsey Bay. The Life-boat Mary Isabella was launched in the teeth of a S.E. gale and a terrible sea and proceeded to the vessel, which proved...
None (1)
Dover, Kent.—At 6.35 in the even- ing of the 3rd of May, 1952, the police reported that six boys were trapped by the tide between Fan Bay and St.
Margaret's, and at 8.50 the life-boat Thomas Markby, on temporary duty at...