LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Little Zahry
Salcombe, Devon.—At 10.10 on the night of the 23rd of September, 1955, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a yacht was becalmed and flash- ing a light half a mile south-west of Prawle Point. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat C.D.E.C.,...
Two Dinghies
TWO DINGHIES TOWED At 7.15 p.m. on ist August, 1964, a member of the life-boat crew told the honorary secretary that three youths who had hired one of his boats were having difficulty in returning and that he had sent out an outboard motor...
A Vessel (12)
DECEMBER 24TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.
During the afternoon information was received from the coastguard that a vessel appeared to be in difficulties about five miles west-north-west of Hartland Point. A...
A Halifax Aeroplane
MARCH 26TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 11.30 at night, the life-boat honorary secretary received a telephone message from the R.A.F. at St. David’s that a Halifax aeroplane was down in the sea several miles west by...
The S.S. Balmoral
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 4th January, at about 6 A.M., the s.s. Balmoral, of London, ran ashore on the North Sands, off Hartlepool, at half-ebb tide. At low water she was high and dry; but when the tide rose the wind and sea began to make. At...
Escape
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 28th November, at about 1.50 A.M., the ketch Escape, of Goole, was observed making for Hartlepool, and showing signals of distress.
The sea being very high, the No. 3 Lifeboat John Clay Barlow put off and...
Isa
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—On the night of the 21st December, during a thick fog, the schooner Isa, of Inverness, bound from Charlestown for Euncorn with a cargo of china clay, struck on the Dolas Bocks and became a total wreck. On the following...
August
AUGUST Launches 41. Lives rescued 92.
AUGUST 1ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 1. 8 A.M. the Royal Naval shore signal station reported that a large steamer had run aground near the Chequer Shoal Buoy. The night was...
Category: Services
Margaret
At 9.25 P.M. on the 9th March a telephone message was received stating that a vessel was ashore to the eastward of Jury's Gap. There was a strong S.W.
breeze at the time and the sea was rough. The Coxswain and crew of...
An Open Salmon Yawl
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 3.15 in the afternoon of the 2nd of April, 1948, the Duncannon police tele- phoned that a small boat was in distress, and the motor life-boat Duke of Con- naught, on temporary duty at the station, was...