LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lord Beaconsfield, of Hull
OCTOBER 17TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.
At 11.30 at night the coastguard reported a vessel ashore off Prail Castle, and at 11.45, in calm weather, the motor life-boat John and William Mudie was launched. She found the trawler Lord...
Skylark, of Newhaven
MAY 13TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. About one in the afternoon the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat off Pett Level appeared to be in difficulties, though she was not showing distress signals. At 1.35 the motor life-boat Cyril...
The American Steamer Georgetown Victory, of Baltimore (1)
MAY 1ST. - NEWCASTLE, CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. In the darkness of the early morning the American steamer Georgetown Victory, of Baltimore, ran ashore at Killard Point, Co. Down, while bound from Australia to Glasgow, with about...
George, of Lowestoft
At daybreak on the morning of the 12th December a brig was observed on her broadside off this station, with her crew of 6 men in their boat, a short distance from the vessel. There was a heavy surf breaking on the shore at the time, and,...
Clarissa, of Bideford
JUNE 20TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A message was received from the police that a vessel was flashing a lamp in Conway Bay. A light south-west wind was blowing and the sea choppy. At eleven o’clock the motor life-boat...
Assurity, of London
Cromer, Norfolk - At 9.3 p.m. on 29th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary sectreary that the master of the m.v. Assurity of London had had a heart attack andneeded to be brought ashore. The life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed with...
Rescue of Four Swimmers
ON the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1957, a number of people, children as well as adults, were bathing in the sea off Barmouth beach. About three o'clock somebody raised the alarm that a swimmer was in difficulties, and a local...
Category: Services
Widgeon, of Rosslare
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford. — At 7.55 in the evening of the 13th of July, 1949, the Civic Guard at Rosslare Strand reported that a pleasure boat under sail, with a crew of five, had cap- sized about seven hundred yards from the...
William of, Londonderry
On the 1st March the brigantine William, of Londonderry, was seen driving into Dun- drum Bay, during a strong S.S.E. wind.
She had her foremast carried away by the deck, and was waterlogged. The Life-boat Reigate was...
The Bullfinch, of Paignton
JUNE 1ST. - TORBAY, DEVON. At three o'clock in the afternoon the motor life-boat George Shee set out on a publicity cruise. A fresh south-westerly breeze was blowing.
with a steep, choppy sea. The life-boat saw a motor...