LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
John
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the 17th January, the No. 2 Life-boat Godsend put off and remained by the brig John, of Hartlepool, until the vessel, which had stranded on the Barber Sand, was, with the assistance of a yawl, extricated from her...
John
Just after day- break on the 12th November a schooner- rigged vessel was observed coming in from the eastward, and as a strong S.E.
by E. wind was blowing a watch was kept on her. From time to time she was lost sight of in...
John
A northerly gale of exceptional severity sprang up with the suddenness—it is reported—of a "clap of thunder," and the Life-boat Queensbury was called out to assist some cobles in distress, but as help reached them from another...
John
DUNGARVAN, Co. WATERFORD. — 1.20 P.M. on the 8th January, the Lifeboat William Dunville was launched, a signal of distress having been shown by the fishing cutter John. It was found that the boat had lost her mast, which in falling had...
John
MARGATE. —At 1 A.M. on the 28th October, during a gale from the E.N.E.
and a very heavy sea, it was reported that a barge was ashore opposite Birchington, and that men could be seen in the rigging.
The...
John Ewing
CARDIGAN.—While a strong N.W.
gale was blowing with heavy seas on the evening of the 24th March, the signalman fired the alarm signal indicating a vessel in distress in Cardigan Bay. The Lifeboat Lizzie and Charles Leigh...
John John
John John, second coxswain of Tenby lifeboat from 1982. He joined the crew of the Watson lifeboat in 1963 and was also a member of the station's D class lifeboat crew from 1973. In 1983 he was awarded a long service badge..
Category: Obituaries
Jean
Stronsay, Orkney Islands. At 6.25 on the evening of the 10th of August, 1960, a local resident told the honorary secre- tary that a fishing boat was in difficulties close in to Warness and needed assist- ance. The life-boat John Gellatly...