LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
S.S. Dentonia Park
SEPTEMBER 14TH. - WALMER, KENT.
At seven in the evening a message was received that the S.S. Dentonia Park needed medical aid. The pilot aboard had collapsed.
A south wind was blowing, with driving rain...
Covent Garden, of Lowestoft
OCTOBER 2ND. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At two in the afternoon the lifeboat coxswain saw a vessel aground on the Inner Newcombe Shoal. She refloated, grounded again, and remained fast. The tide was ebbing, and a moderate sea...
On the Variations of the Reading of the Barometer and the Weather In the Months of September, October and November, 1865
By JAMES GLAISHER, ESQ, F H.S. , THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the period from September 12 to November 30, making altogether eighty days, are shown in the accompanying diagram and...
Category: Articles
A Yacht
D class inflatable tows large yacht to safety A service to a yacht by Lough Swilly's D class inshore lifeboat last July has earned the station a letter of congratulation from the RNLI's chief of operations, Commodore George Cooper....
The S.S. Kasser Wiek
— A strong N.E.
breeze was blowing, with a nasty sea running, on 23rd September, when in- formation that a vessel had stranded on the Margate Sands was received from the Coastguard, and the Motor Life-boat City of Bradford...
The Lucifer Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 1.20 P.M. on the 10th October, 1938, a telephone message was received from the inspector of the Coast Life-Saving Service at Dublin that the Lucifer Light-vessel was flying distress...
Yacht Tigris
YACHT AGROUND Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 5.15 in the evening of the 14th of September, 1947, the Lymington police telephoned that a yacht was in distress near Warren Beach, and the motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the...
The S.S. Loke
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire. — At 8.20 in the morning of the 9th of December, 1948, the Hoylake coast- guard reported a message from the Southport police that a vessel appeared to be aground off Ainsdale beach, and at 9.10 that the...
A Dinghy (2)
Dover, Kent. At 1.15 on the after- noon of the 22nd of April, 1959, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that a small dinghy with an outboard motor was drifting half a mile south of the signal...
Huiberdina Gijsbertha
Aberdeen. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of June, 1959, the coast- guard reported that a message had been received from the Dutch vessel De Hoop that another Dutch vessel Huiberdina Gijsbertha of Katwijk a/Kee was aground on the north...