LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Norfolk-Based Artist Mick Bensley
Norfolk-based artist Mick Bensley puts the finishing touches to one of the 40 watercolours of lifeboat rescues to be featured in a oneman exhibition at the Picturecraft Gallery, Holt, Norfolk from Mav 28 to June 2 this year. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Laertes (1)
FEBRUARY 3RD. - EASTBOURNE, AND HASTINGS, SUSSEX. The Dutch steamer Laertes, of Amsterdam, had struck a mine S.E. of the Royal Sovereign Lightship, and had caught fire, but she was able to reach a Dutch port under her own power. - Rewards :...
A Naval Patrol Vessel
JULY 28TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A naval patrol vessel had sent out an S.O.S. as her steering column had broken, but she was able to repair it.- Rewards, £8 2s..
A Motor Vessel (1)
DECEMBER 13TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. An SOS had been received from a motor vessel on fire off Corsewall Point, but the fire was got under control, the injured members of the crew were taken off by a motor launch, and tugs arrived to...
A Naval Motor Boat
DECEMBER 16TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
A naval motor boat had foundered while going ashore from minesweeper H.M.S. Tenby in a gale, but the life-boat, which made a long search, found nothing. Of the eight men in the boat, seven...
Julia
Cox- swain Kelly of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 1 on the 23rd March saw a schooner miss stays and get into a dangerous position near the rocks beneath the lime kilns at Port St. Mary.
A strong southerly breeze was...
Services by Shore-Boats (9)
CAPE CLEAR, Co. CORK. On 24th September, 1939, explosions were heard at sea about two o’clock in the afternoon.
They came from the S.S. Hazelside, of Newcastle, a timber-laden steamer which was in distress through enemy...
Category: Services
Majorca
Torbay: The crew from the cargo vessel Majorca are put ashore at Brixham. At 0430 on Saturday September 18, 1982, Majorca, 20 miles south east of Straight Point, sent out a may day call; she had a list of 5 degrees and her cargo was shifting...
The S.S. River Humber (1)
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, and Barmouth, Merionethshire.—The Abersoch coastguards reported to the Pwllheli lifeboat station at 12.10 in the morning of the 4th October, 1938, that a vessel was dragging her anchors in St. Tudwalls Roads. A...
Fair Festina
Mainsail jammed A MAYDAY distress signal was received by Portland Coastguard at 1709 on Tuesday April 1 from the yacht Fair Festina whose mainsail was jammed.
There was a gale, force 8, blowing from the west and the sea was...