LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aberdeen supports Cowes
Aberdeen Asset Management is supporting the Cowes Lifeboat Station appeal, which is raising funds to establish a new site four minutes closer to Solent – the stretch of water between the south coast of England and the Isle of Wight. Aberdeen...
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Storm Force celebrates 30 years
Happy 30th birthday to Storm Force, the RNLI’s action-packed club for under 11s.
Born in 1985 and launched at the London Boat Show by actors from TV’s Grange Hill, the RNLI kids’ club, Storm Force, is 30 this year. Look...
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S.S.. Princess, H.M. Trawler Dandora
JANUARY 11TH . - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 5.45 A.M. a message was received from the Croyde Coastguard that distress signals had been received from the S.S.. Princess, in a position near Elwill Bay.
An easterly breeze was...
The S.S. Beemsterdijk (1)
JANUARY 26TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. January 26th was a Sunday, and Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus.Doc., organist at St. David’s Cathedral and the honorary secretary of the life-boat station, received a telephone message at the Cathedral during...
The S.S. Sphene
MCH. 22ND. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 1.10 P.M. a steamer was reported ashore on the Plough Reef, one mile east of Holy Island. The weather was fine but cold, with a W.N.W. breeze and a choppy sea. The motor...
The Llandudno Fishing Boat Pilot No. 3, and the Fishing Rowing Boat Eira
JANUARY 27TH. - LLANDUDNO,CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 4.45 P .M. a message came from the coastguard that the Llandudno fishing boat Pilot No. 3 was in distress two miles east of the pier head, and the motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards...
The American Steamer John L. Sullivan, of San Francisco
JUNE 11TH. - WALMER, KENT. A request was received for the services of the life-boat to take out a doctor to a sick man on the American steamer John L. Sullivan, of San Francisco, which was lying in Trinity Bay. A south-west wind was blowing,...
Two American Landing Craft
JANUARY 17TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
At 2.45 in the afternoon the Hope Cove coastguard reported two American landing craft ashore on Thurleston Rock. A southsouth- east wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea. The motor...
The Fishing Smacks Valiant and Trio
PORTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES. A signal of distress having been shown by the fishing smack Valiant, of Carnarvon, which was at anchor in Porthdinllaen bay, during a N.N.W. wind and a very heavy sea, the George Moore Life-boat was launched at 8...
Barclay
TYRELLA.—The schooner Barclay, of Goole, bound from London to Ayr, stranded in DiMidrma Bay, d-niing thick stormy weather, at 7 P.M. on the 27th of February. As soon as the vessel was observed, the crew of The Memorial Life-boat were...