LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
S.S. Antonio
MARCH 28TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A telephone message was received at five in the afternoon from the naval base at Milford Haven that the S.S. Antonio had been in collision near Milford Buoy. A southsouth- west wind was...
Classification of Services By Inshore Rescue Boats
CLASS Fishing boats - all types Motor vessels, motor boats, etc.
Sailing yachts, sailing dinghies, sailing boats, motor cruisers and motor yachts Aircraft Small boats, canoes, rubber dinghies, etc.
Landing...
Category: Services
Shoreline
THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW is now over and once again the results are very encouraging: 1,011 new members were enrolled. Such a good result could not have been achieved, however, without the help and dedication of our voluntary...
Category: Articles
Telegraph, of Port Issac
On the 8th De- cember, the sloop Telegraph, of Port Isaac, was seen stranded on the Doom Bar Sands.
While a strong gale was blowing from the N., with heavy squalls, the " City of Bristol" life-boat, the Albert...
Twin Saints
Lifeboats from the Channel Islands often cooperate with their French counterparts – rescue boats from the Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM). The special relationship between the RNLI station at St Helier and the SNSM...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat
Fowey, Cornwall. — 15th June. A man and a woman in a rowing boat had been reported overdue. Their boat capsized, but they had managed to get ashore and sheltered for the night in a cave.—Rewards, £8 155..
Wonder
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress were seen in the outer harbour at 10 P.M.
on the 30th September last during stormy weather and a rough sea. The Thomas Fielden Life-boat was launched, proceeded outside Salt Island, and found...
The S.S. Craigern
At 9.30 A.M., on the 4th April, when the fishing-boats were proceeding to the fishing grounds, the Coxswain saw a large steamer ground on the " Outer Owers." He in company with the other boats at once returned and on getting ashore...
June Rose
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — On the 21st of August, 1948, the motor fishing boat June Rose, of Castlebay, put to sea at 5.30 in the morning.
She had not returned by half past two in the afternoon and was...
St. Philip
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—About 4.0 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1951, the skipper of the steam trawler St. Philip, of Fleetwood, asked for help to refloat his ship, which had run on the rocks west of Castlebay pier. At 4.15 the...