LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Superb
During a light northerly wind with heavy sea on the 16th March, it was reported that a fish- ing vessel between four and five miles to the north of Buckie had had her mast carried away. The crew of the Life-boat Maria Stephenson were...
Fingal
NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.-—During the heavy westerly gale and rough sea on the 27th February, the Coxswain of the steam Life-boat Queen received a message that a vessel had foundered off North Wall and that the crew had taken refuge in the...
Redhead
Falmouth, Cornwall.—During the afternoon of the 15th October, 1938, the St.
Anthony coastguard reported a motor yacht on fire about two miles south of Portscatho. The wind was light and the sea smooth. The motor life-boat B...
A Catamaran
Selsey, Sussex. At 5.31 on the even- ing of the 14th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a catamaran had capsized a quarter of a mile south of Selsey Bill.
The life-boat Canadian Pacific...
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Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5.5 on the evening of the 3rd June, 1961, the coxswain was informed that someone had fallen over the cliffs at the Nose of Howth. Ten minutes later the life-boat R.P.L. put to sea with her boarding boat in...
Minnie, Silver Line and Star of Hope
Runs wick, Yorkshire.—At 6.30 in the morning of the 27th of August, 1948, the Staithes fishing boats Minnie, Silver Line and Star of Hope went to the fishing grounds. The wind was light, from the north-west, but the sea was rough and...
Ocean Gift
Flam borough, Yorkshire.—As the coble Ocean Gift was out fishing, and a strong north-east wind was rising, accompanied by a growing sea, the life-boat Howard D was launched at 7.55 on the morning of the 30th September, 1949. The...
A Dinghy
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1958, the police informed the coxswain that a man was clinging to an upturned dinghy five hundred yards from the shore and two miles north of Skegness pier. The life-boat...
Longscar
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 18th of Novem- ber, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the steam traw- ler Longscar, which was making for Hartlepool, had boiler trouble. At 2.30 the life-boat...
Geordie
Newhaven, Sussex. At 9.12 on the evening of the 17th of April, I960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht needed help off the west pier. At 9.30 the life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at low water in a light...