LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TRAWLER ASHORE Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 6.53 a.m. on i8th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Spanish trawler Tulipan was ashore near Monach Isles in a moderate sea and strong south-westerly breeze. It...

Cadgwith, and Penlee, Cornwall and St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At 11.5 on the night of the 25th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, the Cadgwith coast- guard telephoned the Cadgwith life- boat station that the American steamer Chrysanthy...

A TIME TO PAUSE AND LOOK BACK AROUND THE BEGINNING of the nineteenth century 31 'Original' lifeboats built by Henry Greathead of South Shields were established in ports and harbours scattered all round the British Isles. Not a great...

Engine failure IN A STRONG north-north-easterly gale, force 9, and snow showers, the skipper of the Fraserburgh fishing vessel, John Scott, contacted Shetland coastguard at 1945 on Wednesday April 24, 1985 to report that his engine had...

Weymouth lifeboat station, in Dorset, was established in 1869 to replace Portland station, which had closed down in 1850. Funded by the Earl of Stratford, the lifeboat gave assistance to vessels in distress on the north and east sides of...

The barquentine Latona, oi Portsmouth, whilst bound from Portsmouth to Sun- derland on the 30th January, stranded on the Smithic Sand. A whole gale was blowing from the north with a heavy sea running, and the weather was very cold with snow....

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.

AT about 12.5 a.m., on the 30th September, 1899, the Coastguard on duty reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat that a vessel was showing signals of distress off Great Yarmouth.

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West Division Carried off shore LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Fleetwood lifeboat station at 1749 on Friday March 23, 1984, that a board sailor was in trouble a short distance from the shore opposite Rossall Hospital...