LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Vessel
A vessel's light having been observed in a dangerous position near the breakers in the S.E. part of the bay near PenrhynPoint during a whole gale from the N.W.
and a very heavy sea on the morning of the 26th January,...
A Dinghy
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1958, the police informed the coxswain that a man was clinging to an upturned dinghy five hundred yards from the shore and two miles north of Skegness pier. The life-boat...
A Catamaran
LAUNCHED AGAIN At 3.10 on ryth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran had capsized two miles south-east of the life-boathouse. The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched at 3.16 in a south-westerly wind...
A Barque
A telephone message was received from Bacton reporting a barque -with signals of distress flying, on the 27th March. A whole gale was blowing from N.E. by E., the sea was very heavy and the •weather very cold, with squalls of hail. The crew...
A Yacht
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1957, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties three miles south-east of Foreland. At 3.45 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was...
A Barge
APRIL 7TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A barge had been reported sinking, but she had sunk, and there was no sign of her crew when the life-boat arrived. A steamer had gone ashore, but tugs were standing by her and she did not need the...
By Invitation: Kirkwall's 70 Foot Clyde Class Lifeboat Visits the Faroe Islands
IT IS THE GREAT AMBITION of F0rOya Bjargingarfelag, the Faroese Lifesaving Society, to develop a lifeboat service as an extension to the coast rescue equipment companies it has already established at various strategic points round this...
Category: Articles
A Trawler
14th April. A trawler stranded at Sanday, but her crew managed to get ashore in the ship's boat. The life-boat was away for fifteen hours in bad weather and covered about one hundred and twenty miles. Additional rewards were granted for...
A Ship
APRIL 16TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
Wreckage thought to be an aeroplane had been reported. The life-boat found it to be wreckage of a ship, but there was no sign of her crew. - Rewards, £6 3s. 3d..
A Beach Punt
SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. — One of the beach pants belonging to Sonthwold was engaged in shipping pilots during a strong breeze on the 4th April, and at 1.30 A.M., the wind haying freshened to a gale, and a heavy sea breaking on the shoals,...