LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Sir William Stephenson
On the 29th August the s.s. Sir William Steplienson, of Newcastle, whilst bound for London with a general cargo, struck a mine in the Yarmouth Roads, and two men were killed by the explosion. The No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was promptly...
Marechal Suchet
NEW BRIGHTON.—A telephone message having been received from the lightkeeperat Bidston lighthouse on the llth June, reporting that a ship was on fire in Fonnby Channel and was showing signals of distress, the steam Life-boat Duke of...
Bispham
ABERSOCH.—At 1.30 A.M. on the 23rd January the Life - boat Oldham waslaunched, signal - rockets having been fired from the direction of St. TudwelFs Island. The wind was blowing a moderate gale from E.N.E., with snow squalls and very cold...
Maggie
CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—On the 10th August the schooner Maggie, of Ardrossan, bound from Connah's Quay for Swansea with a cargo of bricks, stranded on the Platters Bocks, near the Skerries, during squally weather. The crew, five in number, who...
Greta
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—The motor life-boat J and W put out at 6.20 P.M.
on the 14th January, in a moderate E. wind, with a moderate sea, as the motor fishing boat Greta, of Portpatrick, which should have returned at 3 P...
Our Brother
Boulmer, Northumberland. — On the morning of the 29th January a fresh N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough and increasing sea. Visibility was bad, and it was raining heavily. All local cobles, with the exception of the Our Brother, came...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel (1)
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At four o'clock in the afternoon on the 18th of May, 1950, the Inspector of the Irish Lights telephoned to ask the life-boat to go to the Coningbeg Lightvessel and bring ashore a lightkeeper whose father was dying....
Nan
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 2.5 in the afternoon, on the 13th of September, 1950, the life-boat coxswain saw a small rowing boat with two men in diffi- culties near the rocks off Pedn Myin; and at 2.15 the life-boat The Three Sisters was...
Happy Returns
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 6.0 on the night of the 3rd of December, 1950, flares were reported about one mile off shore in Pevensey Bay. At 6.15 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched in a moderate sea with a moderatenorth-westerly breeze...
H.M.S. St. Kitts
Portrush, Co. Antrim-.—On the llth of July, 1951, H.M.S. St. Kitts was visiting Portrush. Two ratings went ashore for stores; but sudden bad weather prevented them going aboard again with them. The St. Kitts' Com- manding Officer...