LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sanu
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - Thirty minutes after midnight on 5th June, 1966, a message was received that the m.f.v.
Sanu was aground at Tresco and her owner had asked for life-boat assistance.
There...
T. H. Barrow
During a strong 8.E. gale on the 30th December signals of distress were made by the schooner T. H. Harrow, of Lancaster, which was lying at anchor about one mile east of : the Queen's Pier. The Life-boat Mary Isabella at once responded,...
Life-Preservers
[NT the Times newspaper of the 20th of February last, we read the following narration of a deplorable occurrence by which industrious men were deprived of life, and their families, all in indigent circumstances, left in sorrow to struggle...
Category: Articles
Chums
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Category: Advertisement
Gifts In Gratitude for Services
On the 28th September, 1929, the Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued the crew, twenty in number, of a cutter belonging to H.M.S. Marl- borough. In appreciation of this service the Canteen Fund of H.M.S. Marlborough has given £22 to the...
Category: Donations
Lifeboat Services
12 MILE PASSAGE IN 30 KNOT WINDS Surfer saved by Atlantic after night search in severe weather The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to Nigel Sweeny, the helmsman of St Catherine's (Jersey, Channel Islands) lifeboat...
Category: Services
Iverna
The Motor Life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 4.25 P.M.
on the 7th August, on receipt of a telephone message from Overstrand, through the Coastguard, that a small vessel had been disabled off Overstrand with a broken...
Probus Ioanes
FOUR IN DISTRESS Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 6.45 p.m. on zyth May, 1964, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a fishing boat appeared to be in need of help about i£ miles from the coastguard station and by 6.55 the life-boat...
Phantee
TOW FOR MOTOR BOAT IN THICK FOG St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At 7.50 on the evening of the 7th June, 1963, the coxswain learnt that the motor boat Phantee, with two people on board, had gone out fishing at five o'clock and had not yet...
Cossack
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a message had been intercepted from the collier Brent Knoll that the fishing vessel Cossack was in...