LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Book Reviews
• The quality of lifeboat station histories seems to improve steadily. A recent outstanding example is The Men of The Mumbles Head by Carl Smith (J. D. Lewis and Sons, Gower Press, Llandysul, Dyfed, £3.50).
Mr Smith,...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
THUBSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.—A fierce W.N.W. gale sprang up shortly before midnight on the 6-7th January and increased as the night advanced. At about 1 A.M. the ketch Resolute, of New- castle, which was at anchor in the roads, made signals of...
Category: Services
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JUNE 23RD. - ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY. At 1 P.M. the harbour master telephoned to the coxswain asking for the lifeboat to go to Alderney to take off six people, two of whom were injured and would have to travel on stretchers. This was a part...
Leonard Lawrence
Leonard Lawrence, coxswain of Selsey lifeboat from 1960 until his retirement in 1961. He joined the crew in 1918, and was bowman from 1943 until 1952 when he became second coxswain until his appointment as coxswain in 1960. After his...
Category: Obituaries
Zeehond
Plymouth, Torbay, and Salcombe, Devon.
—On the evening of the 9th January, with a strong south-westerly gale blowing, and a very heavy sea, information was received through the coastguard that signals of distress had been...
The Finnish Four-Masted Barque Herzogin Cecilie
Sal combe, Devon. — Early on the morning of the 25th April the Finnish four-masted barque Herzogin Cecilie, of Mariehamn, bound from Australia to Falmouth and Ipswich with a cargo of grain, ran ashore in a thick fog between Sewer Mill Cove...
Bookshelf
The History of the Rhyl Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 This is the second edition of Jeff Morris's account of the lifeboats and services in this wellknown North Wales resort.
As usual the...
Category: Articles
Galera
On the 29th April, at about 1.15 P.M., a smacksman reported that he had seen a barque on the North Sand Head. The Bradford Life-boat left the harbour in tow of the Vulcan, at 1.25, and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the Galera,...
Sandling
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.39 on the afternoon of the 14th of April, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht two miles to the southward appeared to have broken down. The sails had been lowered, but she had a ball at the mast head...
Ark
CLOVELLY.—During a moderate gale from the N., squally weather, and a heavy sea, on the 7th December, the ketch Ark, of Bridgwater, bound from Lydney for Bnde with a cargo of coal, showed a signal of distress while at anchor in the roadstead....