LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Granton Osprey
Nine from rocks AS REPORTED on page 15, the silver medal of the RNLI was awarded to Coxswain George Leith, of the Lerwick, Shetland, lifeboat for the part he played in the rescue of nine men from the trawler Granton Osprey in hurricane force...
Westerndale H., of Hull
Life-boat 70.001 at The Mumbles - At 2.5 a.m. on i6th September, 1966, the coastguard informed Staff Coxswain J. M.
Hunter that the coastal tanker Westerndale H., of Hull, was aground on the Wash Sands. The 70-feet...
The Three-Masted Schooners Queen of Mistley and Willim
BROUGHTY FERRY.—A telegram having been received stating that two vessels appeared to be embayed at the mouth of the Tay and were in danger of being driven on the banks, on which a terrific sea was breaking, during a very strong gale from the...
The S.S. Monita
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At 6.35 on the evening of the 6th of March, 1956, the watchman in the navigation barge which is moored off Lytham rang up to say that he had received a message that the S.S. Monita, of Stockholm, at anchor...
Mavan
Caister, Norfolk.—The pulling and sailing life-boat Charles Burton was launched at 7 A.M. on the 25th April, as a vessel had stranded on the west side of the Barber Sands. She found the yacht Mavan, with two men on board, on the sands N.W....
The S.S. Domingo de Larrinaga
Teesmouth, and Redcar, Yorkshire.— At 5.3 in the morning of the 25th of December, 1950, the South Gare coast- guard telephoned the Teesmouth life- boat station that a ship was believedto be ashore on Saltscar Rocks. At 6.5 the...
The long view
One hundred years on from the sinking of RMS Titanic we are reminded of the continuing perils of the sea with the recent with the Costa Concordia
Both incidents involved loss of life, with...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SCRATBY, NORFOLK.—It is with much gratification that we are enabled to inform our readers of a second life-boat being provided in a dangerous locality, through the public spirit, humanity, and enterprise of the coast-boatmen themselves. When...
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Thurso, Caithness-shire. — 21st July, 1939. Distress signals had been reported between Stroma and Pentland Skerries, but the life-boat could find nothing.—Rewards, £9 11s..
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Stromness, Orkney.—25th July. A boat with a man on board was reported to be in distress in Hoy Sound, but nothing could be found, nor was any boat missing.—Rewards, £4 13s. 6d..