LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
December (1)
HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. At about 3 in the afternoon of the 19th of September, 1943, the 18-ton motor fishing boat Alexandra, with a crew of five, was fishing some 10 miles east-north-east of Heugh Light in Hartlepool Bay, when the men saw an...
Category: Services
A British Airways Helicopter
Ditched helicopter WHEN ON THURSDAY July 31, 1980, Aberdeen Coastguard heard at 1213 that a British Airways helicopter returning from an oil rig in the Clyde Field with 15 people on board had ditched in the sea a 'mayday' relay was...
Letters
Whitby pulling lifeboat The photograph of Whitby pulling lifeboat Robert and Ellen Robson published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT made me wonder whether she was the one that started my interest in the lifeboat service in 1919.
Category: Correspondence
Faulconnier
COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. On the 1st January, 1904, the Life-boat Kezia Gwilt rendered very useful service to the barque Faulconnier, of Dunkirk.
During a strong breeze from E.S.E. and rough sea, with somewhat hazy weather,...
The S.S. Glendarroch (1)
BARMOUTH AND PWLLHELI.—On the 15th March a vessel was reported ashore on St. Patrick's Causeway, while a strong breeze was blowing from the W.S.W. with a heavy sea. The Barmouth Life-boat Jones Gibb was launched at 9 A.M. and boarded the...
A Liberator Aeroplane (1)
MAY 17TH. - MONTROSE, AND ARBROATH, ANGUS. A vessel had been reported on fire. It was a Liberator aeroplane which had crashed in the sea. A naval launch arrived first and picked up two bodies. The Arbroath life-boat did not launch, but her...
Good Intent
On the 5th October, about 10 P.M., signals of distress were seen from a fishing-smack being driven before a strong gale from the S. W. The assembly signal was made, and many willing hands quickly got the Life-boat Leslie to the water's...
Boat Sailing and Sails
IT might be objected that remarks in the nature of hints or suggestions on boat sailing are " coals to Newcastle" to those who manage the Life-boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, and to a considerable extent such...
Category: Articles
Margaret
GROOMSPORT, Co. DOWN.—The barque Margaret, of Belfast, was endeavouring to enter that port during a very strong gale from the N.N.W. and a very heavy sea at about 12.30P.M. on the 14th October. She was taken in tow by a steam-tug, but the...
The South Rock Lightvessel (1)
Cloughey, and Donaghadee, Co. Down.— At three o'clock in the morning of the 31st of January, 1950, the Tara coast- guard telephoned the Cloughey life- boat authorities that the South Rock lightvessel had fired a white rocket. At 3.15 he...