LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Janet
CREW AND POODLES RESCUED Swanage, Dorset. At 7.51 p.m. on 7th September, 1965, red flares had been reported to have been seen off Old Harry rocks. There was a moderate south-westerly breeze with a rough sea.
It was one hour...
Sheila Ann
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 7.55 p.m. on 26th April, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a speedboat had capsized one and a half miles east-south-east of Shoreham harbour entrance. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip...
A Whaler
Dover, Kent - At 3.53 p.m. on 24th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an open boat with two men in it had been seen drifting eastwards in the Channel. The life-boat Southern Africa was launched at 4.23 in a light...
Wanderobo Warrior
SHORT OF FUEL Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 4.15 p.m.
on 22nd October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Zulu Warrior had put out to help the trawler Wanderobo Warrior which had run...
Fishing Cobles
SEPTEMBER 28TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. A very strong N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a very heavy and rough sea, and as six local fishing cobles were out, the life-boat Augustus and Laura was launched at 10.40 A.M. She met five of the...
Pontfield (1)
OCTOBER 11TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 9.57 A.M. the coastguard reported that the after part of the tanker Pontfield, in tow of a tug, was making heavy weather off the port. On 15th September the Pontfield had struck a mine off Cromer and...
The Register of Wrecks for 1863
THE Return of the Registrar-general of Seamen, recently published, shows that during the past year 413,972 vessels—representing a tonnage of nearly 62 millions— entered inwards and cleared outwards from British ports. The estimated value of...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NORTH DEAL, KENT.—The s.s. Bion, of Newcastle, laden with oil, from Batoum for London, stranded on the inner part of the North Goodwin Sand in a thick fog on the morning of the 15th Feb., 1902. In response to signals from the Gull...
Category: Services
The White Star Cargo Vessel The Bardic
About 1.30 in the morning of 31st August, in very thick weather, with a moderate sea, the White Star cargo vessel, the Bardic, of 7,000 tons, ran on the Maenheck Rock, about half a mile south-west of the Life-boat Station at The Lizard. The...
Pandora
During a whole E.N.E. gale and heavy snow showers on the evening of the 10th February, signals of distress were ob- served from the schooner Pandora, of Fraserburgh, which was lying at anchor in Scrabster Roads. The crew of the Life-boat...