LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
£25,000 Tynemouth Appeal.
In April 1941, the Tynemouth life-boat and life-boathouse were destroyed, in an air-raid, by two bombs which fell right on the house. In order to provide a.
new boat and house, an appeal was launched in February of this...
Category: Articles
Lily, of Wexford
On the 20th February last, the Wexford small life-boat put off in reply to signals of distress from the smack Lily, of Wexford, which had struck on the Dogger Bank. It was blowing strong from N.N.E. at the time, with a heavy sea on. On...
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Salt water cure TWO DOCTORS from the local hospital came to Aberystwyth inshore lifeboat house on the evening of Tuesday April 10; they were looking for a boat to go out into deep water to collect a gallon or so of good, clean salt water...
Pietje Antje
Not long after the lifeboat had returned, at 1815. a message came to Torbay station honorary secretary from Brixham Coastguard that something was amiss in mid channel. Coxswain Curnow and Motor Mechanic Stephen Bower were alerted and at 1914...
J. W.A., of Aberayron
FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES. — On the 15th October the No. 1 Life-boat, Sir Edward Perrott, was launched at about 2 P.M., during a whole gale from the W.N.W., signals of distrejs having been shown by the schooner J. W.A., of Aberayron, bound from...
A Steamer
On the evening of the 31st December, 1931, prolonged blasts on a steamer's whistle were heard. There was fog and it was assumed that a vessel had run aground, either on the Smethwick Sands or under the South Cliffs. The No. 2 Pulling and...
Pilot Cutter No.1
Appledore, Devon. — At 7.7 in the evening of the 30th of November, 1948, the Westward Ho coastguard telephoned that Pilot Cutter No. 1 was in difficulties on Bideford Bar and burning flares, and the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was...
Lively Hope
Workington, Cumberland.—At 8.35 on the evening of the 5th of October, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a fish- ing boat had made flares north of Workington pier, and at nine o'clock the life-boat N.T. left her...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At noon on the 29th of October, 1953, the Northern Lighthouse Board reported that a man in the Barrahead light- house was ill and needed immediate medical attention. The weather was too bad for the...
Devotion
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 3rd of May, 1954, the coastguard reported that the local motor fishing boat Devotion, with a crew of three, was in difficulties about three miles north-east of Dunbar and had asked for...