LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Lobster Motor Fishing Boat St. Mary’s
MAY 19TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
At midnight on the 18th the life-boat honorary secretary received a telephone message from the Stornoway coastguard that a fishing boat was in difficulties, with her engine broken down....
Maggie Noble, of Fraserburgh
FEBRUARY 9TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
About 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had gone aground on the bar on the north side of Girvan harbour. A fresh south-south-west wind was blowing, with a...
Coya, of Greenock
JULY 30TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 5.20 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a sailing yacht making heavy weather. Thirty-five minutes later they reported that she appeared to be showing a distress signal. A...
A Sailing Yacht (1)
OCTOBER 26TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 2.13 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a sailing yacht had had her top mast carried away and appeared to be anchored three miles south-east of Hayling Island. A moderate south-easterly breeze...
Sailing in memory
Friends of Andrew Bridge, the 21-year-old skipper of the lost yacht Cheeki Rafiki, set sail in his memory in August to raise money for the RNLI.
The trio took part in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. Despite...
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Snowdrop
LOWESTOFT.—At 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th of January, the second coxswain of the Life-boat observed that the trawler Snowdrop, of Ramsgate, had run aground on the north part of the Newcome Sand, during an E. by S. wind and a...
Landing Craft
AUGUST 29TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 10.45 P.M. the resident naval officer asked that the life-boat crew should stand by, and at 11.20 P.M. the motor lifeboat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched to take out an officer, who was...
STRANDED IN A CAVE
MINEHEAD | 18 DECEMBER
Minehead lifeboat crew launched at first light after a husband and son reported their wife/mother missing. She had slipped 3m down a cliff near her home in Porlock, Devon, and – unable to climb back up –...
Category: Services
The S.S. Boadicea (1)
In consequence of a telegram from Margate that the Tongue lightship was tiring for assistance, the Bradford Lifeboat and steam-tug Vulcan left the harbour at midnight on the 6th December, during a fresh gale from the E.N.E., with snow and a...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SCRATBY, NORFOLK.—It is with much gratification that we are enabled to inform our readers of a second life-boat being provided in a dangerous locality, through the public spirit, humanity, and enterprise of the coast-boatmen themselves. When...
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