LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Service to the S.S. "Hopelyn."
By Commander £. S. CARVER, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Eastern District.
ON Friday, 20th October, at about 11 A.M., I arrived at the harbour at Gorleston. A strong gale was blowing from the N.E....
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IN PRAISE of SHOREHAM LIFE-BOATMEN
On 3rd November, 1968, the Dutch warship Rotterdam towed the yacht Storm, which was carrying a man, his wife and child, to within a few miles of Shoreham and then requested the assistance of the local life-boat. Considerable difficulties...
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Penthesilea (1)
BRAUNTON AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.— On the 11th of January, the ship Penthesilea, of Liverpool, manned by a crew of 30 hands all told, left Newport, Monmouthshire, laden with coal, for the Mauritius. She was towed down the Bristol Channel and...
Emma Walker
SUNDERLAND, NORTH DOCK.—While a strong N.N.E. gale was blowing, accompanied by a very rough sea and torrents of sleet and rain, on the 26th October, the ketch Emma Walker, of Sunderland, laden with coal for Wick, attempted to enter the...
Good Intent
On the 5th October, about 10 P.M., signals of distress were seen from a fishing-smack being driven before a strong gale from the S. W. The assembly signal was made, and many willing hands quickly got the Life-boat Leslie to the water's...
Sand Runner (1)
LISTING VESSEL Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.20 a.m. on 5th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary at Selsey that Niton radio station had received a distress call from the motor vessel Sand Runner, of Goole....
Hero, of London
Most admirable service was also per- formed on the morning of the 16th Oct. by the Walmer Life-boat Centurion, as will be seen by the report furnished by the Coxswain of the Life-boat as follows.
He says, " It was...
Bucephalus, of Shields
On September 22nd, during a fresh breeze at E.N.E., a burning tar-barrel was observed at this station from some distressed vessel in the direction of the east end of the Goodwin Sands. The steam-tug Vulwm, with the Life-boat Bradford in tow,...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. On the j 1st January, 1904, the Life-boat Kezia Gwilt rendered very useful service to the barque Faulconnier, of Dunkirk. ' During a strong breeze from E.S.E. and rough sea, with somewhat hazy weather, • the...
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Bravery at Torbay. Two Men Received Awards
A SERVICE which will be recorded on the station board with the curt statement "Stood by vessel" was recently carried out in such exceptionally difficult conditions that it has led to the award of a silver medal to the Torbay...
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