LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 17th of Decem- ber, 1960, a message was received from the honorary medical adviser that he had to go by air to the mainland to take an expectant mother to Redruth hospital as...
A Naval Pinnace (2)
SEPTEMBER 1 0TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORT PATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
At 1.10 in the afternoon the coastguard reported to the Girvan lifeboat station that a naval pinnace was flying a distress signal off Ballantrae. The...
Ireland's Influence
IRELAND succeeds in making even her visitors Irish. We have had a report from Ireland from one of our organisers, who is not an Irishman, which begins : " In reply to my letter addressed to the old Honorary Treasurer (who had not...
Category: Articles
George, of Sunderland
The Grocers life-boat .at Mnndesley saved 1 man from the brig George, of Sun- derfand, which was wrecked off that place.
Mornington, Susannah and Iris
LOWESTOFT.—During a heavy gale from the N.E., on the 28th October, several shipwrecks, with loss of life, took place off Lowestoft. At about 11 P.M. the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat, after much regrettable delay and difficulty, was launched and...
Annie
Large flares were seen in the direction of Middle Scroby Sand at 4 a.m. on the 5th December. The No. 1 Lifeboat Covent Garden was at once launched, proceeded to the sand, and found the schooner Annie, of Wick, bound from London for Peterhead...
Howard A. Turner
QUEENSTOWN.—Telegrams having been received from Eoche's Point at about 10.30 A.M., on the 15th October, stating that the barque Howard A. Turner, timber laden, was anchored close to the breakers, and that the services of the Life-boat...
Pass of Leny
KILMORE.—The John Robert Life-boat was launched at 2.30 P.M. on the 22nd March, during a S. wind and a thick fog, and remained during the night by the barque Pass of Leny, of Glasgow, bound from Java for Liverpool with a cargo of sugar,...
Henry
SKEGNESS.—On the 8th March, during a strong N.W. gale and heavy sea, the schooner Henry, of Whitby, appeared to be in distress. The Skegness Life-boat Herbert Ingram at once went off to her, and placed 2 men on board, who assisted to get the...
Sinai
TYRELLA, COUNTY DOWN.—On the 15th November the French brigantine Sinai, of Nantes, drove on outlying rocks off Eathmullan, in Dundrum Bay; one man got into the ship's boat, which soon capsized, but he contrived to hold on to it until...