LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
14-year-old Will And His Mum Carolyne Are Glad To Be Reunited
14-year-old Will and his mum carolyne are glad to be reunited Photo: RNLI/Eleanor Driscoll. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Local Shrimping Boat Jenny
At about 11.30 A.M. on the 15th January the Coxswain was informed by fisher- men, who had just returned, that the local shrimping boat Jenny, with only one man on board, was flying a distress signal. In a moderate S. to S.W. gale, with a...
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Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 5.50 on the evening of the 6th of August, 1953, the coastguard reported that a bather was in difficulties off the White Rocks, and that a fishing boat had put to sea. A later message stated that there were two...
The Rescue of Drowning Persons
THE RESCUE OF DROWNING PERSONS.
THE summer of 1868 will long be remembered by the present generation in the British Isles as the most extraordinary within their recollection ; for what With the long continuance of almost...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (1)
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 5.10 p.m. on 2nd September, 1966, a dinghy with a crew of two was reported to have capsized one mile east of Mugglins.
At 5.15 the life-boat Dunleary II left her moorings in a strong westerly...
Mignonette
CAUGHT IN A STRONG EBB Swanage, Dorset.—At 3.23 in the after- noon of the 2nd of September, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 3.35 in a...
Eight Men Rescued from French Trawler
AT 3.49 on the afternoon of the 8th of November, 1956, the honorary secre- tary at St. David's, Dr. Joseph Soar, learnt from the coastguard that a vessel was being towed into Milford Haven and might need help. The Angle life-boat at the...
Category: Services
Last Year's Wrecks
THE approximate value of vessels of all nation- alities, with their cargoes, lost in all parts of the world during the year 1880, was no less than 68,327,000?., including British property 47,495,000?.
The grand total number...
Category: Articles
Folly
Ramsgate, Kent - At 5.14 p.m. on 23rd September, 1968, the coastguard reported that a small boat in Pegwell bay needed assistance. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 5.25 in a fresh westerly breeze with a slight sea...
Provider
APRIL 10TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About 3.30 in the morning the local motor fishing boat Provider went out to haul crab pots. She was the only boat to leave as the weather was threatening. By nine o’clock the conditions at...