LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ulundi
About 10 P.M. on the 26th January signals of distress were observed on the North Sands. The Life-boat's crew was summoned arid the James Stevens No. 16 j proceeded to the spot. There they found the steam trawler Ulundi, of Grimsby,...
Holiday shock
When a rip current dragged a pregnant woman out to sea, Wicklow lifeboat volunteers sprang into action – and discovered she was not the only person with her life in danger
Wicklow’s inshore and...
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Nick of time
A boat with its own fascinating RNLI history set out on a perfect day last Summer. Little did her crew know it was to be her last voyage …
‘We set off in ideal conditions – you couldn’t have...
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Nostalgia Direct
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Margaret and Manx Heather (1)
JUNE 24TH. - DOUGLAS, AND RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 7.50 in the evening a message came to Douglas that the motor boat Margaret was in distress in the direction of Laxey, and at 8 P.M. the motor life-boat Manchester and Salford was launched. A...
A Vessel
A good service was skilfully performed by the No. 1 Lifeboat Kentwell on the 27th May during a strong S.S.W. gale and very heavy sea. About midnight on the 26th idem flares were reported near the South Pier, and the coxswain of the Life-boat...
Miriam Thomas
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—On the 9th January the collier Miriam Thomas, of Liverpool, broke from her moorings during a whole S.S.W. gale, with a rough sea, and drifted broadside on towards a dangerous lee. shore. At 3.30 P.M. the motor life-boat...
Garland
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—Signal rockets having been fired by the Swin-Middle and Maplin Lightships on the 1st November, the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 4 A.M., during a very strong N.B. wind and a rough sea. The Boat made her way across...
Emilia
On the 16th October the HOD. Secretary of this branch received a telegram from the Coastguard Station north of Montrose that a vessel was standing for the harbour with a signal of distress flying. It was then Wowing hard from S.E., with a...
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NOVEMBER 17TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At 9.22 A.M. the coastguard reported that an airman had baled out from his aeroplane a mile E.S.E. of the coastguard lookout. A S.W. breeze was blowing with a slight swell. The No. 1...