LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ernani , H.M.S. Holdfast and Steamer Premuda
JANUARY 16TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
At 7 P.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the Italian steamer Ernani had collided with the Brake Light-vessel, and that the light-vessel was in danger of sinking. At...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st July to the 30th November 1879
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBER- LAND.—On the 1st July a gale from E.S.E. sprang up at about 4 A.M. Seven fishing cobles had left about four hours previously for the fishing-ground, which is about 15 miles from the shore, and considerable...
Category: Services
In Gratitude for Life-Boat Services
ON the 8th May, 1930, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-boat saved the sailing yacht Billikat, and rescued her two occupants. Mr. H. L. Loring, the owner, has become a subscriber of £2 2s. to the Institution.
Category: Donations
Georges Langanay
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 11.22 -on the night of the 10th of September, 1948, the coastguard reported that the Humber Radio Station had inter- cepted a message from the French motor trawler Georges Langanay, of Fe'camp. She was on the...
Suzanna D. and Trawler Speranza
Double call-out SHOREHAM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Newhaven lifeboat at 1634 on Sunday January 22,1984, that a trawler, Suzanna D had broadcast a MAYDAY. She was swamped and sinking two miles south west of Beachy Head and...
Past & Present
50 Years Ago From the pages of THE I.IFF.BOAT, April 1938: Rescue in a Hurricane A Silver-Medal Service at Tenby.
ABOUT 4.30 in the morning of 15th January, 1938, the coastguard at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, reported that a...
Category: Articles
A Yacht
Yacht aground THE POLICE informed Barrow coxswain, Robert Charnley, at 2300 on August 24, 1974, that an independent source had reported the sighting of a red flare north of Walney Island. They were advising HM Coastguard, who would be...
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Man clinging to cliff A MAN CUT OFF by the tide at Saltwick Nab was reported to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station by the Coastguard at 1805 on Friday, July 25, 1975. It was high water and in normal circumstances, with a...
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Two fishermen lost LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD received a 999 call at 2159 on August 19, 1979, from Braystones reporting that twomen who had gone fishing in an inflatable dinghy had not returned. It was thought that they had gone south to the...
Lady Friendship
Crew braves WWII defences to rescue grounded yacht