LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Greek Motor Vessel Doriefs
Penlee, Cornwall. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 16th June, 1961, a message was received that there was a sick child aboard the Greek motor vessel Doriefs, who ought to be brought ashore. The vessel was making for Penzance. The weather was...
The Newquay Fishing Vessel Talisman
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 9.12 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, it was learnt that the Newquay fishing vessel Talisman was without fuel one mile off St. Agnes Head.
The life-boat Edgar, George Orlando and Eva Child was launched in a...
The Converted Naval Pinnace Doris
Night search TWO RED FLARES sighted by the Coastguards at Gorleston and Happisburgh at 0259 on Sunday, October 21, 1973, were reported to the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston honorary secretary. Some ten minutes later Khami, one of the first of...
God Bless the Life-Boat
WHEN in dark night of winter, fierce storms of wind and rain Howl round the cosy homestead, and lash the window pane, When over hill and tree top, we hear the tempest's roar, And hurricanes go sweeping on, from valley to the shore, When...
Category: Poetry
The French Schooner, Pierre Desiree
On the same day a French schooner, the Pierre D6siree, got on the Hooper Sands, off Llanelly, during a moderate gale, with a heavy sea.
On her signals of distress being seen, the Life-boat Stanton Meyrick of Pimlico was...
The Search for Edward May
AT 4.45 on the morning of the 8th of September, 1954, Edward May, a 44- year-old steel worker from Scunthorpe, waded into the sea at Cap Gris Nez.
He planned to swim to Dover unes- corted and thereby become the first man to...
Category: Services
The South Goodwin Lightvessel (2)
On the night of the 26th-27th November, 1954, the South Goodwin lightvessel broke adrift in a gale and at daylight was found to be lying on her beam ends. The Dover, Ramsgate and Walmer life-boats were all launch- ed, but the sole survivor...
The No. 2 Pilot Boat
Holyhead, and Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.20 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary at Holyhead that the no. 2 pilot boat, which had gone to the Skerries Rock with fifteen children...
The Motor Fishing Vessell Hamoaze
Fleetwood, Lancashire - At 9.30 a.m.
on 26th March, 1967, the owner of the motor fishing vessel Hamoaze informed the honorary secretary that a crew on board his vessel were attempting to salvage her as she was aground on...
The Converted Ship's Boat Sun
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 10.10 on the morning of the 29th of August, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a man at Pittenweem had reported that a small boat was drifting towards the shore east of Pittenweem. It was low water when the...