LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Topdal and the S.S. Kittiwake
MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. — On the evening of the 6th October the Coxswain of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 5 received a telegram from Whitehaven warning him to watch for a barque coming up the Solway Firth. A strong gale was blowing from S.W....
Yachts and a Sailboard
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
An American Thunderjet Fighter (1)
Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.
—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...
Albion, of Teignmouth and Emma, of Barrow
— On the 20th February, the schooners Albion, of Teignmouth, and Emma, of Barrow, an- chored in Fishguard Bay. Being strangers, the vessels came to anchor rather too far out in the bay, and the wind having suddenly shifted to the N.N.E., and...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44' Waveney Lifeboat Khami Was Launched In a Near Gale on Sunday August 22 to Go to the Help of American Yacht Sonata Taking Water
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44' Waveney lifeboat Khami was launched in a near gale on Sunday, August 22, to go to the help of American yacht Sonata, taking water four miles south of Cross Sand Lightvessel. Sonata got the leak... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Urlana and Thurland Castle
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Idrigill Point on the Isle of Skye, 40...
Pram Instead of Car.
On life-boat day in Manchester and Salford one of the members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, a city councillor of Manchester, delivered her collecting boxes, and took her money to the bank, in a baby's pram..
Category: Articles
Collapse of An Oil Rig
ON Monday, 2yth December, 1965—Boxing Day—a great many people were appalled on hearing the news of a disaster which had overtaken the oil rig Sea Gem which collapsed and sank in the North Sea. The oil rig, which belonged to the British...
Category: Services
Mary B. Mitchell, of Dublin
DECEMBER 15TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
At five in the afternoon the Ross Lighthouse reported by telephone that a vessel appeared to be drifting, but was not showing any distress signals. A south-easterly gale was blowing, with a...
An Aeroplane (23)
JUNE 5TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £5 4s. 3d..