LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Whitley Bombing Aeroplane (3)
DECEMBER 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. On the afternoon of the 9th December Padstow No. 1 motor life-boat put out to the help of a Whitley bombing aeroplane which had been reported down in the...
The S.S. Miltrap
SEPT. 22ND. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.8 P.M. it was reported by the coastguard that a vessel was showing signals of distress near the Plough Seat Rocks. A fresh N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy swell. The...
lolanda
APRIL 23RD. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor fishing host, returning to Brixham in the morning, reported that the engine of the fishing boat lolanda had broken down in St. Mary’s Bay. A freshening south-east wind was blowing, and there was a rough...
Dunluce
AUG. 11TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
At about 4 P.M. the second coxswain of the life-boat reported that the motor fishing boat Dunluce, of Portrush, with a crew of four on board, was in need of help off Curran...
Memories of a Jersey Crewman
In place of a "Focus" report on a life-boat station we are publishing the following contribution sent to us by a crewman of the Jersey life-boat, who wishes to remain anonymous. The article was received after "Focus on St....
Category: Articles
150th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Forfarshire— Grace Darling In Context By Georgette Purches Assistant Public Relations Officer
Is there in the field of history, or of fiction even, one instance of female heroism to compare for one moment, with this? wrote The Times in 1838.
The event to which the leading article in the newspaper referred was the...
Category: Articles
A Silver Medal Service at Cloughey
ON 9th May, 1939, the s.s. Arantzazu- Mendi, of Bilbao, went aground on Butter Paddy shoals, outside Kearney Point, Co. Down. Efforts were made to salve her, and there was a salvage party on board on 17th June. A strong S.S.W. wind was...
Category: Services
Cygnet
TYRELLA, Co. DOWN.—On the 13th April, at about 7 A.M., the brigantine Cygnet, bound from Silloth to Dundalk, with a cargo of coal, was driven ashore in Dandrum Bay during a strong S.E. gate.
The Memorial Life-boat put off...
An Aeroplane
Shortly before mid- night on the 3rd-4th July a wireless message was received that an aeroplane had come down between the South Goodwin Lightship and the Brake Buoy.
The weather was fine with a light...
Invermore, of Dublin (5)
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....