LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles (1)
Runswick, Yorkshire. — Four fishing cobles put to sea in moderate weather at 7 A.M. on the 31st December, 1937.
Later on, conditions got bad, and by 10.45 A.M. a moderate gale was blowing from the N.N E., with a rough...
Fishing Cobles
Four days afterwards a sudden gale from N.E., accompanied by rain, sprang up on this coast, and great excitement was occasioned at Eedcar from the fact of there being five fishing cobles out at sea. The gale came on between 7 and 8 A.M., and...
The Admiralty Drifter Supporter
NOVEMBER 3RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
At 9.10 at night information was received from the naval officer-in-charge that the Admiralty drifter Supporter, employed as a hospital carrier, was getting into difficulties off the...
A Boat (2)
AUGUST 8TH. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
A number of soldiers had gone out ina boat and could not make any headway against tide and sea, but they were picked up by a steamer. - Rewards, £5 14s..
Letters
Lifeboat car? In late September when driving from Newcastle upon Tyne to Carlisle, I passed a Triumph saloon car towing a caravan, the car bearing the registration RNL 1 which was condensed to read RNLI. The car also bore an RNLI flag on the...
Category: Correspondence
The S.S. Ossian
BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—At about 2.30 .A.M. on the 17th January a vessel was sighted coming into the bay.
The weather was foggy, the sea rough and a strong breeze was blowing from the S.S.W. At 3 o'clock she sent up...
An Admiralty Landing Barge, L.C.P.R. 675
MAY 15TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
About 3.30 in the morning information was received from an officer at Feock, Truro River, that an Admiralty landing barge, L.C.P.R. 675, had stranded at Trefusis, Falmouth Harbour, and was...
Brighton's Relief Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat on Exercise Off Brighton Marina Photograph By Courtesy of Crew Member Alan J Young
Brighton's relief Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat on exercise off Brighton Marina. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Crew Member Alan J. Young. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
M.V. Andoni
Tow by tug IN VERY BAD WEATHER on the evening of Thursday December 9, 1982, the 500 ton coaster MV Andoni suffered engine failure and anchored 2Vz miles south of Shoreham Harbour. She was seen by Coxswain Kenneth Everard of Shoreham Harbour...
The Bark Guyana. of Glasgow
On the night of the 10th February, the bark Guy- ana, of Glasgow, bound to the West Indies, was driven ashore on the Carrig Rocks, off Greenore Point, County Wexford, in a N.E.
gale. Intelligence having been conveyed to the...