LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, and Barra Island, Hebrides.—On the night of the 26th October the Latvian steamer Helena Faulbaums, of Riga, bound light from Liverpool to Blyth, was caught in a sudden and exceptionally severe storm near Jura...

DOCTOR'S BOLD JUMP MR. D. j. REEVES, the staff coxswain of the Clovelly, North Devon, life-boat Charles H.

Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), a 70-foot steel boat, was told by Hartland Coastguard on 7th November, 1971,...

1st January Greater London.

CHELSEA.—Address to the Rotary Club by the District Organizing Secre- tary.

CHINGFORD (ESSEX).—Bridge and Whist Drive. Address by the Assistant District Organizing Secretary.<...

SUNDERLAND (SotTTH Pl*B>—The S.S.

Jacinth,* of Dundee, in ballast from Montrose for Sunderland, in making for the south entrance, on the night of the 2nd March, struck on the South Beacon rocks and was badly holed. The...

On the morning of the 9th September the Coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore to the north of Filey. A fog prevailed at the time with a rough sea, and the Life-boat Hollon the Third was promptly launched. About two miles to...

Cloughey, Co. Down.—7th September, 1938. Signals were seen flying from the South Rock Light-vessel, but they were found to be for a tender to bring a sick man ashore. — Rewards, £10 2s. 6d..

The Prince of Wales, Gravesend, crew rowing down Woolwich Reach in the 5th RNLI annual sponsored marathon row, Gravesend to Greenwich and back, August 18, 1974. It all started with Eric Lupton's idea in 1970. Twelve boats rowed from... - View image in PDF

Cloughey, Co. Down.— About three o'clock in the morning of the 7th of March, 1950, information was received from the Tara coastguard and a farmer that a vessel was on the rocks near the South Rock Lightvessel. The life-boat Herbert John...