LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Flower
On the afternoon of the 15th, the gale then blowing very heavily, accompanied by squalls of rain, a vessel was seen driftii; g towards the shore at Donna Nook, which soon afterwards struck on the Hale Sand. The alarm was given at the...
Excel
On 28th to 29th October, the night following the service of the St. Mary's Life-boat, the gales reached their worst, striking with special violence on the coast of North Wales and Lancashire.
That night nine Life-boats...
Several Yachts
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 12.45 in the afternoon, on Sunday the 16th of July, 1950, the honorary secretary telephoned the coastguard about several yachts racing in the bay. As the weather was bad and the probability of some of them...
Meetings of Committee
Thursday, 4th March, 1852. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the Chair.
Confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting, and of the Finance, Wreck, and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read letter from the Local Committee at...
Category: Committee
Fishing Cobles
. — Several cobles were out fishing on the morning of the 13th October, when a gale sprung up from the N.E., and the sea became very heavy.
Some of the boats returned to the shore before the sea had risen very much, but two...
A Dinghy and Two Yachts (1)
RESCUES FROM THREE YACHTS IN TURN Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard ininformed the honorary secretary at Southend-on-Sea that a small sailing dinghy had capsized near...
Two Fishing Boats
Informa- tion reached Aranmore about 9 P.M. on the 2nd August that two fishing boats belonging to the place were in difficulties, and as there was a S.E. gale blowing, with a rough sea, the Life-boat La Totitam was launched and proceeded to...
Baalbek
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.43 on the afternoon of the 1st of March, 1953, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Baalbek, of Oslo, had hit the Great Nore Tower Forts. One of the towers had collapsed, and a number of men from the...
Three Boats
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.10 in the afternoon of the llth of May, 1952, a message was received from Leysdown that three women and a man in a small boat were in difficulties about two miles off shore, and at 1.30 the life-boat Greater...
A Dinghy (1)
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 6.45 on the evening of the 8th of November, 1956, the inspector of police at Truro tele- phoned to say that three men were in a small dinghy at King Harry Ferry in the River Fal. The dinghy was rapidly rilling with...