LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. India
During the afternoon of the 6th August signals of distress were heard from the direction of Duncansbay Head; a dense fog pre- vailed at the time, with a north-east swell. The crew of the Life-boat Ida were immediately assembled...
Beryl
At 6 P.M. on the 22nd December a barge, the Beryl, of Faversham, showed flares for a pilot, but in the prevailing gale it was not safe for ;a pilot to proceed to her. As the weather was very bad, and had every appearance of becoming worse,...
Dyrhaug
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 9.42 on the evening of the 16th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man living in Lerwick had heard on his radio a Norwegian motor fishing vessel asking for help as she was ashore on...
The Sudden Foundering of Ships of War, and How to Save Their Crews
WE have been so accustomed to look on our Ships of War as " the safest things afloat" that our whole attention has been hitherto turned to measures for increasing the safety of our merchant vessels, and to providing the most...
Category: Articles
Zona, Pisces
RESCUE IN WORST WEATHER FOR 20 YEARS WHEN on 20th November, 1971, red flares were sighted in the area of the Wallet Spitway buoy, the Clacton, Essex, life-boat Valentine Wyndham- Quin was launched at 6.17 p.m. The wind was south south west...
Lifeboat Lexicon
Continuing our occasional series explaining lifeboat terms and operations Awards for Gallantry The RNLI has been making awards for gallantry since it was founded 175 years ago. In that time the system has evolved, both keeping pace with the...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Lost Off Weston
A LIFE-BOAT on temporary duty at the Weston-super-Mare station parted from her moorings on the afternoon of the 12th April, and was driven on to rocks and was so severely damaged that she has had to be written off as a total...
Category: Articles
Medal for Rescue from Fishing Vessel
Coxswain Gordon Elliott of Padstow has been awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from the fishing vessel Deo Gratias on 23rd November, 1965. The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have...
Category: Services
Marigold A.
Engine failure AT 1718 ON DECEMBER 11, 1986, St David's honorary secretary was alerted by Milford Haven Coastguards to the plight of the 40ft fishing vessel Marigold A, on passage from Fishguard to Looe, reported to be disabled with...
A Motor Boat
THE COASTGUARD informed New Quay honorary secretary at 1740 on July 30, 1974, that a small motor boat had been seen drifting towards the rocks about half a mile north of Trwyn-Croi, some four miles south of the station. Three minutes later...