LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Copeland
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—-At 1.45 P.M. on the 23rd October, 1939, the signal station reported that a vessel was ashore on the Shoebury Sands.
The weather was calm, and the sea smooth. At 2 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel (1)
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At four o'clock in the afternoon on the 18th of May, 1950, the Inspector of the Irish Lights telephoned to ask the life-boat to go to the Coningbeg Lightvessel and bring ashore a lightkeeper whose father was dying....
The S.S. Pitwines
JANUARY 11TH. - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.26P.M. a message was received from the Spurn Point Royal Naval Signal Station that S.S.
Pitwines had been attacked by enemy aeroplanes eighteen miles south of...
Blanche Maguerite, of Dundalk
Early in the morning of the 15th January, during thick weather, the barque Blanche Mar- guerite, of Dunkirk, and bound to that port, was wrecked on a reef off Brooke Chine. The Brooke Life-boat, George and Anne, was launched, and, under the...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Roland Moore of Barrow. He was appointed second coxswain in 1941 and after a break for war service became coxswain in 1947. In 1958 he was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for a service in which...
Category: Articles
Gulf of St. Vincent (1)
CEMAES, HOLYHEAD AND CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—Intelligence having been received at these Life-boat stations on the morning of the 19th July that a steamer was stranded near the West Mouse, the crews of the Life-boats were summoned, and the boats...
Gulf of St. Vincent (2)
CEMAES, HOLYHEAD AND CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—Intelligence having been received at these Life-boat stations on the morning of the 19th July that a steamer was stranded near the West Mouse, the crews of the Life-boats were summoned, and the boats...
The S.S. Spidola
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 8.10 in the morning of the 14th of February, 1948, the coastguard reported that a vessel had gone ashore in a thick fog to the south-east of the South Stack Light- house, and at 8.32 the motor life-boat A.E.D. was...
The S.S. P.L.M. 17
Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 1.8 in the morning of the 14th of May, 1949, the coastguard reported that a vessel was believed to be aground on the New- combe Sands. Her signals by lamp could not be read, so the life-boat Michael Stephens was...
The S.S. Achilles
HARWICH and ALDEBURGH.—Signals having been fired by the Cork Lightvessel, the Harwich steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland, with the reserve Boat in tow, went out at 4 A.M., on the 20th October, proceeded to the Light-ship, and was...