LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Atlantic
SHOREHAM.— On the 20th July the barquentine Atlantic, of Areudal, which was riding at anchor off the harbour, was observed to be dragging towards theshore. The wind was blowing a moderate gale from the S. and there was a rough sea. At 2 P.M....
A Small Boat Named Joan
The motor life- boat City of Bradford I, on relief duty at this station, was launched at 8.25 A.M. on the 14th May, as the second motor mechanic had seen a small boat in danger about three and a half miles S.S.W. of the look-out. A strong...
Merry Thought
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—The motor lifeboat Agnes Cross left harbour at 2 P.M.
on the 30th May, 1938, for exercise, going in the direction of the East Newcombe Buoy. A whole W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. A trawler was...
Latvian Award to Portaskaig
ON the night of 26th October, 1936, the Latvian steamer Helena Faulbaums, of Riga, was caught in a sudden very severe storm near Jura Sound on the west coast of Scotland. The weather was very thick, with rain showers, and the sea was very...
Category: Awards
Georgette
On the morning of the 14th Novem- ber the coastguard telephoned to the coxswain that the steam trawler Georgette, of Grimsby, was ashore on Outer Bank, about three miles north of Winterton. She was bound home from the fishing grounds with a...
A Sailing Boat and Ampico 2
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 6.55 on the evening of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a cabin cruiser was making very heavy weather five miles south-south-west of Mumbles Head. At 7.10 the life-boat William...
Vestfart
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 7.45 on the evening of the 26th of November, 1954, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that a Swedish tanker had rescued the crew of six of the motor fishing vessel Vestfart, of Gothenburg, which had capsized, and...
A Sunderland Aircraft
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 9.35 on the morning of the 4th of June, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a Sunderland aircraft of the Royal Air Force had crashed when landing half a mile south-east of the life-boathouse.
Ten...
Two Yachts
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.5 oil the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1955, the life-boat coxswain received a message from the Wallasey Ya;ht Club that two yachts had capsized half a mile north-west of Rock Light. Ten minutes later the...
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Anstruther, Fifeshire. —• During the morning of the 19th December, 1938, it was learned that the boatman who took stores to May Island had been unable, owing to bad weather, to make the trip for five days, and that the twenty-eight people on...