LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary Kate
AUGUST 12TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 6.5 in the evening the coast life-saving service man at Curracloe telephoned that a fishing boat was flying a signal south of Blackwater Head. A fresh south-westerly wind was blowing, with a...
Silver Medal Service
A cargo ship on passage to Egypt got into trouble off the Devon coast in heavy seas and gale force winds when her 5,260-tonne load of timber shifted, causing a severe list.
Salcombe and Torbay’s all-weather lifeboats...
Category: Articles
Akabahra
FEBRUARY 22ND . - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2.5 P.M. information was received from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire several miles to the east of Dunbar.
She had been seen by the Observer Corps post on the coast. A...
Broaching yacht
RED BAY AND LARNE | 25 AUGUST
A 10m yacht was broaching in heavy seas off Torr Head on the north Antrim coast, and was in danger of being dismasted.
Her crew of four needed...
Category: Articles
H.M. Trawler Flotta
OCTOBER 29TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5.30 A.M. the coast-guard reported signals of distress, and a few minutes later said that a vessel was ashore one mile north of Rattray Head. At 6.35 A.M. the Peterhead motor...
An American Lifeboat In Britain
With the 25-knot Trent and Severn lifeboats becoming increasingly common sights around the coasts of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, Nicholas Leach looks at the history of the Waveney class, the first 'fast' lifeboat to...
Category: Articles
Bookshelf
Dial 999 - Emergency Services in Action by John Creighton ISBN 1-85058-297-1 published by Sigma Leisure at £9.95 John Creighton has spent some time as an operational firefighter and in the maritime rescue services, so is well qualified...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Enthusiastic thank-you I would like to use THE LIFEBOAT to say a big thank you to the coxswains and crews of the lifeboat stations around our coast for making lifeboat enthusiasts so welcome and showing such hospitality and interest when...
Category: Correspondence
The Harkaway and a Lugger
WORTHING.—On the 1st June, in consequence of a sudden gale from S.W., a very heavy sea was set up on the coast about Worthing, and a number of fishing-boats at anchor were placed in great peril—some drove from their anchors; the Life-boat...
A Vessel
ROBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKSHIRE.—On the night of the 7th April a vessel was seen to take the ground at the north cheek of Eobin Hood's Bay. There was thick haze at the time, a light wind was blowing from the E.S.E., and a heavy sea was...