LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Minesweeper
JULY 27TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
A minesweeper had gone ashore on the rocks in Moelfre Bay, but her crew were rescued by the coastguard life-saving apparatus.- Rewards, £5 16s. 6d..
A Vessel (16)
DECEMBER 31ST. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. Signals of distress had been made by a vessel, but before the life-boat reached her she signalled again that she did not need help and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £13...
Sos tally
The total raised on this year's SOS day, the RNLI’s biggest fundraising day, is over £490,000 and the money is still coming in.
Congratulations and thank you if you organised or supported an SOS event. Next year’s...
Category: Articles
None (10)
JANUARY 17TH. - WALMER, KENT.
Flares had been reported, but they were found to come from burning waste on a steamer with which the crew were trying to thaw out a frozen windlass. - Rewards. £29 0s. 6d.
An Aeroplane (187)
NOVEMBER 28TH. - FENIT, CO: KERRY.
A German aeroplane had crashed near the Blasket Islands and three of the crew were safe, but two others were adrift in the aeroplane’s rubber boat. A search was made, but nothing was...
An Aeroplane (130)
AUGUST 3lST. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.
The pilot of a British aeroplane had wirelessed that he was baling out about 3 miles N.W. of Rhyl, but the life-boat was recalled before she reached the position given. - Rewards, £16...
Maud Mary
DEC. 17TH. -POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, AND SWANAGE, DORSET. The schooner Maud Mary, flying the Polish flag, had gone ashore west of the Old Harry Rocks, but the crew got away in their own boat.
- Rewards: Poole and Bournemouth...
Cestrian, of Chester
On the 31st of August, the schooner Cestrian, of Chester, in running for Newhaven harbour, grounded on the bar, when the Institution's life-boat stationed there was launched, and proceeded to her aid. An attempt was at first made to save...
Atlanta, of Kirkwall
On the 10th December, during a fresh gale from S.S.E.
and heavy cross-sea, the schooner Atlanta, of Kirkwall, in the Orkney Islands, after striking on the Barber Sands, on the Nor- folk coast, went ashore on Hasborough...
Tony Krowmann
WITHBRNSBA.—At 9 o'clock on the morning of the 14th October a messenger from Sandy le Mere, two miles N. of Withernsea, stated that a vessel was ashore there, too far off for the rocket apparatus to reach her, that the sea was getting up...