LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gladonia (1)
Long hours at sea THE CARGO VESSEL Gladonla, broken down and drifting 34 miles east of Lowestoft, was reported to the honorary secretary of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station by Yarmouth Coastguard at 0850 on Tuesday January 3,...
Aquasoothe (1)
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Category: Advertisement
None (1)
Canine calamity! Filey's inshore lifeboat was called out in March this year to help rescue a dog that was cut off by the tide and stranded on rocks.
Photo: Graham Taylor Coastguards had previously climbed down 60m of...
Newcastle (1)
NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN On the 30th January, 1941, the Newcastle life-boat landed the crew of fourteen of the motor ship Sandhill, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
COXSWAIN PATRICK MURPHY was awarded a clasp to his bronze...
Category: Medals
Valldemosa (1)
OCTOBER 6TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. Shortly after two in the morning the Ramsey coastguard informed both life-boat stations that a ship was in distress W.S.W. of the Chicken Rock.
Port Erin was asked...
Success (1)
JAN. 2ND. - REDCAR, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At about 9.45 A.M.
the coastguard at Marske telephoned that a motor fishing vessel was in distress four miles north-east of Huntcliffe. She was the Success, of Whitby, with a...
October (1)
KIRKWALL, ORKNEYS. On the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1946, a Polish soldier was off Crow Nest Point, in Kirkwall Bay, on a raft and being blown out to sea. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At the request of the...
Category: Services
Provider (1)
APRIL 27TH - 29TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE ; PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE ; AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
While the motor fishing vessel Provider was on passage in ballast from Caernarvon to...
None (1)
JANUARY 31ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the morning, a man who had arrived from Llandudno on the previous day fell over the cliffs near Pen Trwyn. A moderate southerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. It was too rough for a...
Trustful (1)
DEC. 21ST. PETERHEAD, AND FRASERBURGH ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5.55 P.M. the coastguard reported that flares had been seen two miles south of Rattray Head. A light N.W. wind was blowing, with a ground swell. The motor life-boat...