LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An R.A.F. Aeroplane
DECEMBER 7TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 1 A.M. the coast-guard reported a message from the coastwatching post at Goring that it had seen red flares at sea about a mile away. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate...
The Italian Vessel S.S. Concordia (1)
DURING the south-westerly gales of extraordinary violence, which burst over the south-west and south of England in the second week of July, and lasted for two or three days, eight Life-boats along the south coast were launched, and three of...
Auffredy, of Sunderland
HARTLEPOOL.—At 10 o'clock on the night of the 1st October, the No. 1 Lifeboat, Charles Mather, gallantly rescued, in a heavy surf, 3 men, being part of the crew of the barque Auffredy, of Sunderland, which had driven ashore 3i miles...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the September and October Meetings of.the Committee of Management.
Torbay, Devon.—At about 10 P.M. on the 15th May, Miss Patience Trout, of Hallsands, saw, by telescope, signals of distress...
Category: Services
Jacob Rauers
The barque Jacob Rauers, of Gothenburg, whilst bound from that port to Grangemouth with a cargo of spars and pit-props, stranded on the rocks near the " Needle Eye," at Marshall Meadows, on the 29th...
The Irish Container Ship Bell Rover
Sick man taken off in gale AN IRISH CONTAINER SHIP, Bell Rover, contacted Dover coastguard on the evening of Tuesday November 20,1984, seeking medical advice about one of her crew members who was sick. After consultation with a doctor, the...
A Sailboard
Among sandbanks AT 1621 on Sunday March 31, 1985, a coastguard auxiliary from Brancaster reported to his Great Yarmouth coordination centre that he had a board sailor in sight who was in trouble. He was lying on his board, unable to reach...
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Galvvay Bay - At 20 minutes past midnight on 22nd April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a young man had been seriously injured in a fall from a motor scooter, and the doctor had requested the use of the life-boat to...
The S.S. Bohemian
NEW BRIGHTON.—On the 23rd November, at 2.15 A.M., signals of distress were shown by a vessel ashore on the Brazil Bank.
The Tubular Life-boat Willie and Arthur proceeded in tow of the steam-tug Knightof the Gross to the...
Eleanor, of Quebec
On the night of the 8th December, when blowing heavily at W.N.W., the Life-boat made two trips to the barque Eleanor, of Quebec, then ashore on the Cardiff Sands.
The first time the boat started from the shore at 10 P.M.,...