LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
B. E. M. for Hoylake Life-Boatman.
Sidney Triggs, a member of the life-boat crew at Hoylake, and now a leading-torpedoman in the Navy, has been awarded the British Empire Medal. He is one of seven brothers of whom three are in the Navy; one is about to enter the Navy; two are...
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A Small Boat
Barra Island, Hebrides.—A whole N.W.
gale suddenly sprang up at about 1 P.M. on the 15th January, 1938, and fear was felt for the safety of the small boat, manned by four men, which attended the Barra Head...
Thomas L. Devlin
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 5.52 on the evening of the 8th of December, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Thomas L. Devlin, of Granton, had gone ashore at North Carr. At 6.10 the life-boat James and Ruby Jackson was...
A Canoe (2)
Salcombe, Devon. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 1st September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people in a canoe were stranded on the rocks at Steeple Cove near Bolt Head. At 3.35 on the ebbing tide the...
Patrick
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 1.30 p.m. on loth March, 1967, the Belgian coaster Patrick was reported to be aground on Holm Sand one mile to the east of the coastguard lookout. The life-boat FrederickEdward Crick slipped her moorings at 1.40 in a...
Caroni River
JANUARY 20TH. - FALMOUTH, CORN- WALL. At 11.20 A.M. the coastguard at St. Anthony reported that a vessel was flying a distress signal three miles S.W. of St.
Anthony. A fresh S.S.E. wind was blowing, with a nasty swell....
Seton Queen
Dunbar, East Lothian - At 6.39 p.m.
on 22nd March, 1967, the motor fishing vessel Seton Queen was reported to be running short of fuel. She had been fishing between Barr Rock and May Island and was overdue. This had been...
The S.S. Hamla
MAY 14TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.23 A.M. information was received through the coastguard from the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, that the S.S. Hamla, of London, was in distress about twenty miles from Selsey Bill in a south-easterly...
Anglo-Saxon
BROADSTAIRS.—The coastguard on duty reported a vessel, burning flares, off the North Foreland at 3.45 A.M. on the 28th March. The Life-boat Frances Forbes Barton was launched at 4 o'clock, and found the barge Anglo-Saxon about two miles...
With the Lowestoft Life-Boat Standing By
With The Lowestoft Life-Boat Standing By The Cetus In Tow of A Tug. - View image in PDF
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