LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Giusto
In response to signals and a message received by telephone on the 25th October the Life-boat Aldeburgh was launched at 1.30 A.M. and sailed to the Shipwash S*nd.
The barque Giusto, of Trieste, bound from Sundswall for Cape...
Margaret Sinclair
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides - At 12.45 p.m. on 29th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Margaret Sinclair was long overdue on a passage from Stornoway to Castlebay. The lifeboat The James...
Treasure Sale
Treasure Sale Silver coins and other treasure salvaged from the Dutch East Indiaman Hollandia, which sank in 1743, were sold by auction at Penzance on 8th September. Mr. Michael Newman, acting on behalf of Rex Cowan, the leader of the...
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Minni
Teesmouth, Yorkshire - At about 5.36 p.m. on 28th May, 1966, the coastguard sighted a small fishing boat being blown out to sea with three people on board. Her engine had failed and she had neither oars nor anchor. In the absence of the...
Couthie
SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE At 10.55 a.m. on i3th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht which seemed to be making for Broadstairs had disappeared suddenly, presumably capsized. There was a moderate sea with a...
Two Canoes
TWO CANOEISTS DROWN Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 5.16 on the afternoon of Friday the 23rd August, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man at Penarth had reported to the police that three men in two canoes appeared...
Ira
Caister, Norfolk. At 7.40 p.m. on 12th February, 1966, one of the life-boat shore helpers had heard a distress call from the trawler Ira of Lowestoft stating that the trawler was aground five miles south-east of Haisbro' lighthouse, and...
Royal
OCT. 12TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHscene, UMBERLAND. At 5.33 A.M. the coastguard reported a ship ashore on the Goswick Sands.
The weather was wet and cold, with a moderate easterly breeze and a heavy swell.
At...
Vellum awards
Brighton Helm Mark Smith has been accorded the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum for his part in saving a man’s life in near-gale conditions on 26 May 2011.
The man had gone overboard from the yacht...
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Sunshine
PORTRUSH.—The brigantine Sunshine, of and from St. John, N.B., laden with timber, arrived off Coleraine Bar on the 4th July and anchored, waiting for a sufficient depth of water to enable her to cross the bar. On the 10th a gale from the N.E...