LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vertruvius, of Liverpool
The Zelinda life-boat at Portrush, after several trials, saved the crew of 6 men of the brigautine Vitrumus, of Liverpool, which had stranded on Curran Point.
All Bottled Up
When is an emergency not an emer- gency ? One answer might come from the crew of the inshore rescue boat at St. Ives: when it is a drifting bottle.
At 8.25 p.m. on 29th May Captain T. Stevens, honorary secretary at...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services March April and May 1983
Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: May 31 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21: March 10 and April 10 Aberystwyth, Dyfed D class inflatable: April 20, May 14,15 (three times) and 17 Aith, Shetland 52ft Barnett: May 18 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 37ft din Rother...
Category: Services
The Skibbereen Fishing Boat Sirus
SEPTEMBER 19TH. - BALTIMORE, CO.
CORK. During the morning a telephone message was received from Union Hall post office that a fishing boat was in difficulties.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing, with a...
RNLI News
Volunteer action awards TJie Whitbread Volunteer Action Awards are recognised as one of the UK's most prestigious community award schemes.
Fundraising and operational volunteers with the RNLI are eligible for the awards...
Category: Articles
The New Life-Boat
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Category: Photographs
Selina, of Swansea
— On the 27th March, the schooner Selina, of Swansea, was totally wrecked on the Outer Stag Rocks, during a strong N.N.E. wind. The Anna Maria life-boat was quickly launched, but before she could reach the vessel, the master and a boy had...
Wilson, of Whitehaven
On the 2nd Feb. the Life-boat on the south side, or at Mornington, was trans- ported by land to Bettystown Strand, and launched therefrom to the assistance of the schooner Wilson, of Whitehaven, which was wrecked off there during a strong...
Gleaner of Carnarvon
On the same day the brigantine Gleaner, of Carnarvon, went ashore on Henblas Beach, on this coast. The Cotton Sheppard life- boat went off, in reply to the signals of distress from the vessel, and rescued the crew of 3 men, who were landed...
S.S. Jeanette, of Ostend
JUNE 15TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 8.15 in the morning the Great Yarmouth coastguard reported a vessel aground two and a half miles east of Corton. A light north-west breeze was blowing, with a moderate...