LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ocean Wave
GREAT YARMOUTH.—A schooner, whichproved to be the Ocean Wave, of Fowey, coal laden, from Shields for Plymouth, was seen stranded on the Scroby Sand in thick weather on the 5th May. At 6.50 p.m. the Life-boat John Surch proceeded to her...
Peep o ' Day, of Wrexford
On the morning of the 21st April the services of this life-boat were again called into requisition. The lugger Peep o'Day, of Wexford, was totally wrecked on the north end of the Dogger Bank, during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. The...
The Sunbeam
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 9 o'clock in the evening of the 1st of August, 1948, the coastguard reported a motor vessel broken down off Saltdean, and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched at 9.5 in calm...
Isle of Wight Fete
ON 18th and 19th June the Ladies' Life-boat Guild in the Isle of Wight held an "All-Island Life-boat Fete" in the Nelson Hall at East Cowes.
The Hon. Mabel Gough-Calthorpe, the Hon. Secretary of the Guild, was...
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The Life-Boat Stamp Club
Miss MARGARET POWER, honorary sec- retary of the Cobham branch, who runs a stamp club for the Institution, will be very glad to receive jubilee stamps issued by the Dominions and Colonies, especially the higher-priced ones, whether used or...
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The Aberdeen Trawler Evergreen
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire On the 18th January the Aberdeen trawler Evergreen was wrecked at Rosehearty.
The motor life-boat Lady Rothes rescued the crew of nine.—Rewards, bronze medal, and an increase in the usual money...
The Panamanian Motor Vessel Taurus
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 10.58 a.m. on 2ist July, 1966, a small boat three miles north east of Whitby buoy was requesting assistance. At 11.10 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched in a strong northerly wind and a rough sea. It was four...
The S.S. Co-operator
Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 3 P.M. on the 9th January, during a whole W.N.W.
gale, with a very rough sea, the s.s.
Co-operator, of Fenit, broke her moorings.
She drifted towards dangerous rocks...
Dee Jay
Dungeness, Kent. At 8 p.m. on I2th August, 1965, a speed boat was reported in distress off Dungeness Point with her engine broken down. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched on the flooding tide at 8.53 in a moderate...
The French Dandy Henri et Helene
ST. IVES, CORNWALL.-—At 8 A.M. on the 17th April, blowing hard from E.N.E., in consequence of signals of distress from the French dandy Henri et Helene, of Nantes, the Life-boat Covent Garden went out of the river and placed a pilot and 2...