LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Flying Fox
Poolbeg, Co. Dublin.—At 9.10 on the evening of the 18th of July, 1954, the Dublin Port and Docks Board Bathing Master telephoned that a yacht had run ashore between No. 4 and No. 6 buoys in the River Liffey. At 9.40 the life-boat Helen Blake...
Maid of Honour
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.28 on the night of the 30th of April, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a local resident had reported a wireless message from the motor fishing vessel Maid of Honour, of Lerwick. She had broken down off Brethren...
Secret, of Littlehaven
OCTOBER 8TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 8.25 at night the coastguard reported that the motor boat Secret, of Littlehaven, with three on board, had left Littlehaven in the morning for Milford Haven and had not arrived. A second message...
Result, of Guernsey
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the afternoon of the 1st January, when a strong gale from the N.E. and a fresh in the river had set up an unusually heavy sea on the bar of the Tweed, the barque Result, of Guernsey, which was bound from Sombrero to...
Capricornus
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.45 A.M.
on the 7th August, 1938, it was reported from Easington, through the Humber Signal Station, that a vessel was ashore at Dimlington Heights.
A moderate northerly breeze...
Herga
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.5 on the afternoon of the 21st of February, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Mid-Barrow light- vessel had reported that a cabin cruiser appeared to be aground two miles...
Shemara
Eight saved on January night IN THE SMALL HOURS of Thursday January 31, 1985 the coastguard reported to Oban's honorary secretary that a fishing vessel, Shemara, was aground on Lady's Rock and was in urgent need of the lifeboat.The...
Dudley Stone
January, 1987 Dudley Stone, coxswain of Torbay lifeboat. Coxswain Stone joined the lifeboat crew in 1958 becoming second coxswain in 1961. In 1970 he was appointed coxswain until 1972 when he retired from the service..
Category: Obituaries
Frobisher
PAKEFIELD, SUFFOLK. — During a strong wind from E.N.E. and a heavy sea on the 24th March flares were seen from a vessel on the South Newcombe Sands. The Life-boat's crew were summoned, and without delay the Life-boat Two Sisters, Mary...
A Boat
UNABLE TO ROW Redcar, Yorkshire. At 3.30 p.m. on I3th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties near Huntcliff, Saltburn.
There was a fresh west-north-westerly breeze with...