LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue from a Norwegian Ship
AT 5.37 on the morning of the 21st of January, 1955, the honorary secretary of the Cloughey life-boat station, Mr.
D. Thompson, learnt from the Tara coastguard that a Norwegian ship was aground on South Rock and needed help...
Category: Services
Cruiser and Crete Avon
Penlee, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 9.40 on the night of the 1st of March, 1956, the St. Just coastguard rang up the Penlee life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Crete Avon, of London, a vessel of 4,100 tons, had been in tow of the...
The French Fishing Boat Notre Dame des Victoires (1)
Fenit, and Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of May,1956, the Dingle Civic Guard tele- phoned the Fenit life-boat station to sav that two men were stranded on a high ledge of a cliff under the old tower at Ballydavid...
Iris
DURING the last days of 1917 the Clacton-on-Sea and Walton-on-Naze Life-boats performed two splendid services, well worthy of the traditions of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, and resulting in the rescue of no less than 115 lives,...
Inaugural Ceremonies: Wales
THE Inaugural Ceremony of the new Motor Life-boat at Moelfre, Anglesey, took place on 17th July, with Commo- dore Sir Richard Henry Williams- Bulkeley, Bt., K.C.B., R.N.R., Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey and a Vice- President of the Institution...
Category: Inaugurations
A Speed Boat
Stranded under cliffs BRIXHAM COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Torbay lifeboat station at 1431 on Monday, August 23, 1976, that survivors from a wrecked speedboat were stranded on a beach at Forest Cove under overhanging...
Pietje Antje
Not long after the lifeboat had returned, at 1815. a message came to Torbay station honorary secretary from Brixham Coastguard that something was amiss in mid channel. Coxswain Curnow and Motor Mechanic Stephen Bower were alerted and at 1914...
Laity F.
Tug on fire THAMES COASTGUARD informed Southend- on-Sea lifeboat station at 1130 on Saturday March 21, 1981. that the tug Laity F was on fire near No 3 Sea Reach Buoy. The crew assembled and took the transport down Southend Pier and at 1148...
Nimrod
Coaster capsized A CARGO VESSEL, Nimrod, with a list to starboard and requiring urgent assistance was reported to the honorary secretary of Cromer lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0358 on Monday November 14, 1977. Her position was given...
The Oil Supply Vessel Smit Lloyd 47
Seven rescued THE OIL SUPPLY VESSEL Smit Lloyd47, dragging her anchor and grounded in a severe easterly gale and heavy swell on the west shore of Peterhead Harbour of Refuge, about five cables from the lifeboat slipway, was reported to the...