LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Petite Marie-Claude
Plymouth, Devon. At 9.54 on the morning of the 28th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Rame Head informed the honorary secretary that the French trawler Petite Marie-Claude had an engine failure off Looe Bay three and a half miles...
Vellums Awarded to Three Men
AT Porthclais harbour in Pembroke- shire about 3.30 on the afternoon of Friday the 19th of July, 1963, Mr. B. J.
Williams heard a woman shouting that a man had fallen over the cliff. With the help of a friend, Mr. T. J....
Category: Awards
Galilee
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.41 on the morning of the 5th of Octeber, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the fishing vessel Galilee with a crew of five had gone aground near the east pier and was in danger of being carried on to the Scaur...
Catharina W.
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 31st of July, 1959, the Malin Head radio station informed the honorary secretary of a distress message received from a Dutch coaster stating that she had broken down north of Arran...
Highland Laddie
Dungeness, Kent - At 11.30 a.m. on 12th July, 1967, news was received that the cabin cruiser Highland Laddie was aground off Lade. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.50 in a fresh...
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Swept into sea AN ANGLER SWEPT into the sea north of Filey Brigg was reported to the deputy launching authority of Filey lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1222 on Sunday September 25, 1983. Nine minutes later the station's D class...
A Persian's Gratitude
The Institution has received £15 from a Persian, living in Isfahan. He sent it to show his admiration for Great Britain, and wrote: "I know well the meaning of the English hospitality, the English home, the English liberties, the...
Category: Articles
Isabella, of Aberdeen
On the 15th June, a messenger on horseback arrived at An- strother from Fifeness, having been de- spatched for the life-boat by the coastguard there, in consequence of observing a brigan- tine with her foretopmast and topgallant- mast gone,...
Polar Prince
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.49 on the morning of the 26th of January, 1958, the coastguard told the coxswain that the trawler Polar Prince had sprung a leak twenty-four miles north-east of Tynemouth. The life-boat Tynesider was...
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Falmouth, Cornwall.—31st December.
What were thought to be signals of distress were seen in the bay, but they were a steamer's lights, occasionally obscured as she rolled in a rough sea.— Rewards, £10 6s....