LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Britannia
Clovelly, Devon - At 7 a.m. on 2nd October, 1969, the life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, on temporary dutyat the station, intercepted a distress signal from the motor yacht Britannia reporting that she was in difficulties with a broken rudder...
Eagle
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—The motor fishing boat Eagle put out at 1 P.M. on the 16th May to haul crab and lobster pots. After she had been gone for about an hour the sea got very rough, and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at...
A Motor Boat (4)
SAFELY TO MOELFRE At i.20 p.m. on 5th August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secre- tary that a small motor boat had sprung a leak and was drifting with the fresh to strong south-westerly breeze in rough seas north-north-east of...
Book reviews
Survival skills, intrepid explorations and coastal cruises – get ready for an adventure this spring
The Cape Horner’s Club: Tales of Triumph and Disaster at the World’s Most Feared Cape by Adrian Flanagan
Category: Articles
A Bronze Medal Service at Moelfre
ABOUT one-fifteen in the morning of 24th October last a message came from the coastguard to the life-boat station at Moelfre, Anglesey, that a vessel was in distress N.N.E. of Point Lynas. A whole gale was blowing from north by east, and a...
Category: Services
Two Fishing Boats
A mode- rate easterly gale was blowing on the 3rd November, and with the flood-tide the sea increased considerably. During the afternoon two fishing boats, belong- ing to St. Andrew's, which had been waiting for the tide, were observed...
The S.S. Libelle
The coxswain of the Palmerston Life-boat was called at 1 o'clock on the morning of the 12th January, and informed that a vessel was ashore on the north side of Tynemouth Sands. The Lifeboat was manned and launched as quickly as possible,...
Eugenie S. Embiricos
JANUARY 21 ST. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. The life-boat rescued twenty eight people from the Greek steamer Eugenie S. Embiricos on January 22nd and landed sheep and provisions on January 26th. For details, see January 10th, page 12.
The Aberdeen Trawler Blethos
AUGUST 9TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
At 9.15 in the evening the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore on the south end of Stroma. An easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Thomas...
Shidajo
CATAMARAN A yacht in difficulties about half a mile offshore on 28th June, 1971, led to the Humber, Yorkshire, life-boat City of Bradford III being launched at 12.25 p.m. in a fresh to strong west north westerly wind and a rough...