LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Deerwood
The Bomber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.50 P.M on the 12th February, 1938, information was received through the Mablethorpe coastguard and the Spurn Point Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel was drifting on to the Haile Sands. She was...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Tuesday, 2nd August 1860. Capt. Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of .the Finance, Correspondence, Wreck and Reward and Barometer Sub-...
Category: Committee
John Douse
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On the night.of the 11th November, 1877, it was reported that a vessel was ashore off Sandown.
It was then blowing a hurricane from the S., with thick rain. The Worcester Life-boat was taken...
Castlemaine
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.—On the 4th March, at about 1 A.M., intelligence was received that a ship had stranded in Ballybalbert Bay, three miles south of this Life-boat Station. The wind was blowing a hurricane from the S.E., with heavy sleet...
Irish Girl, of Dundalk
CLOGHER HEAD, Co. LOUTH.—While about sixteen open yawls were fishing off Clogher Head on the morning of the 24th January, a gale sprung up very suddenly from W.N.W., and the coxswain of the Life-boat, who was watching the fleet, saw that...
The Fishing Trawlers Perseverance, and the Ellen and Ann
LLANDUDNO.—The Sunlight No. 1 Lifeboat, manned by its efficient crew, rendered its first service in saving life during the heavy gale which prevailed along the coast on the 7th October. Early that morning two fishing trawlers from Hoylake,...
Brothers
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 10.30 P.M. on the 29th May, 1938, the coastguard reported that the weather was getting bad and that several small fishing boats were at sea.
By 11 P.M. a...
Halcyon
Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.45 A.M. on the 27th September, 1939, the Deal coastguard reported a motor barge drifting ashore to the N.E. of their station. A heavy sea was running with a strong easterly wind. At 7.5 A.M., the motor...
Dunaine and Carmel
TUG SAVED RHYL, Flintshire, life-boat was told on 28th June, 1971, that a vessel was in difficulties off Llandulas and in danger of being washed ashore.
The life-boat Har Lil was launched at 12.35 p.m.
in...
Sea Venture III and Espardarte, and Cabin Cruiser Alcidan
At 10.27 p.m. on 22nd October, 1966, news was received that the cabin cruiser Alcidan was overdue on a passage from Weymouth and that the Norwegian tanker Maakfjell had taken three men off ayacht they had taken in tow. They were eleven and a...