LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A French Brig and James Carthy
HOLYHEAD.—On the 23rd November, at about 3.30 A.M., during a very heavy gale, signals of distress were seen in the bay.
The Life-boat Thomas Fielden was immediately launched, and proceeded in tow of a steamer to the...
Award for Coxswain
COXSWAIN David Cox, of Wells, Norfolk, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution on vellum for an attempted service to the yacht Kiskadee on the night of 29th-3oth August, 1964.
A report that a yacht was burning a red...
Category: Services
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BRINGING A WOMAN WITH CHILD TO HOSPITAL Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 10.21 in the morning of January 18th, 1947, a doctor at Mid Yell telephoned that he had a woman with child on the island of Fetlar who must be brought to hospital...
Three Medals In Twelve Months.
Coxswain Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co. Down, in Northern Ireland, has won the Institution's gold medal for superb seamanship and daring rescuing a steamer's crew in January. Just a year before he twice won the bronze medal in...
Category: Articles
Two Longshore Fishing Boats
OCTOBER 3RD. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
Two longshore fishing boats had made signals of distress, but they reached harbour without help. - Rewards, £8 10s. 6d..
Ran I
Drifting in gale A DUTCH YACHT, the 42ft Ran I, reported at 2238 on Thursday June 4, 1981, that she was in difficulties in the vicinity of Shipwash Lightvessel; her engine had broken down and she was drifting in gale force winds. She had...
Bluebell (1)
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1948, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Bluebell, of Port Seton, with a crew of seven, had broken down nine miles to the north-east, and the motor...
A Motor Boat
Salcombe, Devon.—At 6.14 on the evening of the 13th of October, 1953.
the Hope Cove coastguard rang up to say that a small boat was burning- flares half a mile west of Prawle. At 6.25 the life-boat Samuel and Marie...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—On the 19th of January, 1954, a motor-vessel passed a message to the life-boat station through Portpatrick airport, asking that a doctor be sent to the island of Rhum. The bad weather had put the normal means of...
A Yacht
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 15th of September, 1950, a resident telephoned the harbour master that a yacht was in difficulties. At 6.20 the life-boat Dunleary II was launched in a smooth sea...