LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fine Service at Holyhead
ON the evening of the 7th October, 1938, a small coaster was reported by the coastguard watchman at Rhosneigir to be making distress signals between Rhosneigir and Porthdinllaen. The Porthdinllaen and Holyhead life-boat stations were...
Category: Services
Penlee Formal Investigation
The findings of the Formal Investigation ordered by the Department of Trade into the loss on December 19, 1981, of the coaster Union Star with her eight people and of Penlee lifeboat Solomon Browne with her crew of eight lifeboatmen. THE...
Category: Articles
A taste for lifesaving
He owns a string of top eateries in London – so what is it that keeps restaurateur, chef and food writer Mark Hix coming back to the seaside?
There’s a force 7 off the Dorset coast, and...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies: Lerwick and Dungeness
HRH THE DUKE OF KENT, president of the Institution, visited Shetland for the first time on Tuesday September 12, 1978, when he named Lerwick's new 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Soldian. A guard was provided by A (Lovat Scouts) Company 2/51...
Category: Inaugurations
William and Mary
After daylight on the 14th October, the fishing vessels of Newbiggin -were caught in a' sudden gale from the east, and obliged to j make for the port. Anticipating some i mishap, the Life-boat William HopJcinson, \ of BrigJiouse, was...
Storm King and Petrel
MONTBOSE.—On the morning of the 10th October, while the tug Storm King was towing the schooner Petrel, of and for Montrose, from Balta Sound, Shetland, the tow line broke, and the schooner went on the " Leads " rocks. A fresh N.E....
The Eleanor and Jane
Information was received at 4.30 P.M.
on the 4th of April, during a moderate N.W. breeze, that a schooner was ashore on the North Stack, and required immediate assistance. The Thomas Fielding Life-boat was quickly taken out...
Ocean Belle and Pacific
BULL BAY.—At 2.15 P.M. on the 22nd December, 1886, a signal of distress was shown by the schooner Ocean Belle, of Amlwch, which was at anchor in a dangerous position in the Bay, Anglesey, during a strong wind from the...
Wanderer and The Nautilus
Again, on the 10th May, the fishing boats were oTertaken by a heavy sea, which sprang up very suddenly and which was felt all along the east coast of Scotland.
The boats made with all speed for the harbour. One of them, the...
Ambassador and Ashlowe
SWANSEA.—The Life-boat Wolverhampton was launched at 2.15 P.M. on the 23rd January, in answer to a signal of distress from the barque Ambassador, of Aberdeen, bound from Cardiff to Bio with a cargo of coal, which bad been in collision with...