LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Inflatable searches in 'huge' surf on Cornish coastBude's D class lifeboat often has to launch through heavy surf, but a service on 3 July in exceptional conditions has brought the helmsman Paddy Frost and crew members Jonathan...
An Inflatable Boarding Craft from HMS Lindisfarne
Vital illumination JUST AFTER 1900 on the evening of Wednesday February 12, 1986, Douglas, Isle of Man, lifeboat station's deputy launching authority was telephoned by Ramsey coastguard. An accident had happened close to Douglas...
Pontfield
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 6.28 in the morning the Cromer coastguard reported a vessel awash about five miles N.N.E. from Cromer, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 7.5. A strong N.E. wind...
Tyger and The American Steamer Edward R. Squibb
FEBRUARY 15TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
At 3.15 in the morning the coastguard reported a message from the East Goodwin Light-vessel. She asked for the life-boat to be sent as she had on board survivors from a vessel which had been...
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING SOUTHAMPTON WATER, HAMPSHIRE. At 6.30 in the evening of the 11th of October, 1944, six cadets set off from Millbrook Pier in a dinghy for the training-ship Moyana, 200 yards away. A strong south-west wind was blowing. The sea...
Category: Services
The Trinity House Vessel Reculver
JANUARY 9TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 1 0 A.M. an explosion was heard to the north-east of the life-boat station, and the Gorleston coastguard reported that the Caister Look-out had seen aircraft diving towards the sea,...
The Belgian Motor Trawler St. Jan Berchmans, of Ostend
MARCH 10TH. - 11TH. - HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. Late on the night of the 9th of March the Belgian motor trawler St. Jan Berchmans, of Ostend, with a crew of seven, was fishing about five miles from Mine Head in a strong south-easterly...
S.S. Turkia
OCT. 20TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET. At 8.18 A.M. the Swanage coastguard reported that the Greek steamer S.S. Turkia had grounded one mile and a half N.W. by W.
of St. Albans Head, but was not flying distress signals. About 9.25...
S.S. Nicolaos M. Embiricos
NOV. 4TH. - WALMER, AND RAMSGATE, KENT. At 8.7 P.M. a message was received at Walmer from the Deal coastguard that distress signals had been seen about two miles east of their station. A S.W. wind was blowing, with squalls. There was a...
Vixen
About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne. The crew consisted...