LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Florida
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—'On the 23rd March, a vessel was seen ashore on the Goodwin Sands. The Vulcan steamtug and the Life-boat immediately proceeded out, and steered direct for the spot. On arriving near the sand, the Life-boat was...
United States Life-Saving Service
THE number of stations in the United States Life-Saving Service at the close of the year ended the 30th June, 1907, was 278, the same as that on the correspond- ing date in the previous year. Of this number, which was subdivided into thir-...
Category: Articles
The Admiralty Tug Amsterdam
MARCH 8TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 9.8 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship ashore on Redcar Rocks, N.E. of the pier.
A little later it was learned that the vessel was the Admiralty tug Amsterdam. The...
Crewhill and Osage
DECEMBER 18TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 4.20 P.M. the steamer Crewhill, of Belfast, was seen to be approaching and to be signalling for the life-boat, and at 4.30 P.M. the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched. A...
U.S.A. Liberty Ship James Eagan Layne
MARCH 21ST. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
At 4.3 in the afternoon a message was received from the king’s harbour master that a vessel was sinking five miles north-east of Eddystone, as the result of enemy action.
A...
Gwendoline
APRIL 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A message was received from the son of the life-boat coxswain, Dumble, that his father and his father’s partner were out in their crab-boat Gwendoline off West Runton, attending to their...
A Naval Pinnace (1)
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORT PATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
At 1.10 in the afternoon the coastguard reported to the Girvan lifeboat station that a naval pinnace was flying a distress signal off Ballantrae. The...
Breeches Buoy Rescue In Whole Gale
AT 4.40 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1954, the honorary secretary of the Newhaven (Sussex) lifeboat station, Mr. R. K. Sayer, was told by the coastguard that the Danish auxiliary schooner Vega was making water and might need...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (142)
OCTOBER 22ND. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 2.57 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had come down in the sea S.E. of the Fairlight Coastguard Station A light E.S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea...
Fishing Boats
FRASERBURGH, N.B. — On the 25th August one of the most severe storms ever experienced at this season of the year prevailed here. A report had been circulated among the fishermen on the previous day that a storm was at hand, and on that day...