LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Sphene
Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 1.10 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1939, a steamer was reported ashore on the Plough Reef, one mile east of Holy Island. The weather was fine but cold, with a W.N.W. breeze and a choppy sea. The motor life-boat...
The S.S. Agia Varvara
ANOTHER GREEK STEAMER HELPED Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 7.0 in the evening of the 10th of March, 1947, the coastguard reported that a ship was aground one and a half miles south-west of North Goodwin Light- vessel. A light south-easterly...
Vidonia
YOUGHAL, Co. CORK.—The William Beckett of Leeds Life-boat was launched at noon on the 15th February to the aid of the barquentine Vidonia, of Bridport, bound from Pernambuco with a cargo of sugar, which had stranded on the bar during a fresh...
Temple Insurance
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Category: Advertisement
Two Gold Medals
THE rescue from the Greek motor vessel Nafsiporos, in which fifteen men were saved by the Holyhead and Moelfre lifeboats, will probably long be recalled as one of the great achievements in the life-boat service.
Coxswain...
Category: Medals
Anchor-Shot and Grapnel-Shot
ONE of the chief difficulties attendant upon life-boats, consists in launching them from an exposed beach. It is rarely, if ever, that a boat can be launched from a carriage direct into the open sea in a gale of wind ; although it is...
Category: Articles
Velocity
PORTHDINLLAEN.—On the 24th March, during a heavy gale from the N., accompanied by snow showers, the schooner Velocity, of Nefyn, bound from Silloth to Nefyn, with coal, /while at anchor in Porthdinllaen Bay, was observed to show a signal of...
Messenger
SCILLY.—During the night of the 27th October the wind blew a very heavy gale from the W.S.W., and early on the morning of the 28th signals of distress were observed from the direction of Trescoe.
Thp Henry Dundas Life-boat...
Hope
PENMON, ANGLESEY.—Early on the morning of 23rd August the dandy Hope, of St.
Ives, bound from Buncorn to Penryn with coal, having dragged her anchor and parted her chain, struck on the Dutchman Sandbank, opposite to Penmon,...
Swift
LOWESTOFT.—The schooner Swift, of Eye, bound to that port from Seaham with coal, was seen with a flag of distress during a gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea at about 11 A.M. on the 12th December, and the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat thereupon...