LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 16th April, a fishing-boat was seen approaching the shore with signals of distress flying, her crew finding it impossible to make the land through the heavy surf. The Withemsea life-boat was at once launched to their help, and...

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NOVEMBER 19TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

During the afternoon the weather worsened. The only Whitby fishing boat still at sea was the motor fishing boat Success.

Anxiety was felt for her safety. A southwesterly...

Cloughey, Co. Down. — At 12.30 in the early hours of the 10th of August, 1952, the coxswain reported that a vessel had gone aground on the north end of North Rock, about three miles off Cloughey, and at one o'clock the life-boat...

On the 24th March the barquentine Isabella, of Swansea, coal - laden, from Sunderland for Southampton, ran into Yarmouth Eoads for shelter in a severe gale from W.S.W. and a very heavy sea, Her two anchors were let go but both chains parted,...

Canine calamity! Filey's inshore lifeboat was called out in March this year to help rescue a dog that was cut off by the tide and stranded on rocks.

Photo: Graham Taylor Coastguards had previously climbed down 60m of...

JANUARY 6TH - PENLEE, CORNWALL.

At 5.25 in the morning the resident naval officer at Penzance reported that a convoy had been attacked about five miles south of Treen coastguard hut. A moderate southwest wind was blowing...

Jan. 1,1861.—The brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham, was wrecked on the "Whitley Sands, Northumberland, during a strong gale, with a heavy sea and showers of snow and sleet. .The Cullercoats life-boat of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was...