LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Vessels
Kent.—27th March. Two vessels collided in thick weather, but were able to go on their way.—Re- wards, £32 18*. 6d..
Rhodesia
During the afternoon of the 3rd December the Coxswain of the Life-boat Docea Chap- man was informed that an attempt was going to be made to save the steam trawler Rhodesia, of Grimsby, which had stranded five miles to the south of Withernsea...
Libertas,of Genoa
The same life-boat also went off on Sunday, the 31st of January, to the assist- ance of the barque Liebertas, of Genoa, which was bringing up in the roadstead during very heavy squalls from the S.W., when her cables parted, and she went on...
Award of Ministry of Transport Shield
THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr. Harold Watkinson, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service in 1957 to the Sandown arid Ventnor life-saving apparatus companies of H.M. Coastguard for the rescue of the crew of the...
Category: Awards
Unione
KlNGSDOWNE AND NORTH DEAL. On 16th August the Life-boat Charles Hargrave, stationed at Kingsdowne, and the Mary Somerville, of North Deal, were launched early in the morning, signal guns having been fired by the East Goodwin and Gull Light...
Stella Maris
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. — In the early morning of the 12th July a message was received that two men in a boat, north-east of Ryde pier, were shouting for help and flashing a light.
A fresh west breeze was blowing, with a...
The Belgian Naval Ship Konig Albert
MOTOR CRUISER FIRES DISTRESS SIGNALS Dover, Kent. At one o'clock on the morning of Monday the 15th of July, 1963, the Folkestone coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had been seen firing red flares half a mile south of...
The East Goodwin Lightship and a Schooner
On the 30th March, at 5.15 A.M., in reply to signals of distress the Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Vulcan proceeded to the East Goodwin Lightship and found that she had been run into by a schooner, and had one of the vessel's crew on...
Sequel
SCARBOROUGH.—The steam fishing-boat Sequel, of Scarborough, while making for the harbour at 2.30 P.M., on the 26th November, stranded on the beach to the west of the piers and struck heavily. The Lady Leigh Life-boat put off to her...
A Fishing Coble
A N.N.E. gale suddenly sprang up off Newbiggin on the 17th April whilst the fishing cobles were at sea, causing the sea to become very rough and rendering their return very risky. The Life-boat Ada Lewis was launched soon after noon, and...