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'We waited and hoped'

Date: Summer 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 596 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2011

On the evening of 1 April, Skerries lifeboat crew members were requested to search for two missing fishermen from the Co Dublin town

Along with RNLI lifeboat crews from Clogher Head and Howth,...

Category: Articles

Sarah Ann Dickinson

Date: August 1879

Volume: 10

Issue: 113

ARDROSSAN, N.B.—On the 4th February, at about 10 P.M., during a fresh breeze from S.S.W. the schooner Sarah Ann Dickinson, of Fleetwood, in approaching Ardrossan Harbour, ran on the Eagle Rock. A steam-tag proceeded to her and made an...

The Bottle Breaks

Date: September 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 362

The Plymouth life-boat and her crew. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Yarmouth Isle of Wight and Poole:

Date: Autumn 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 482

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Poole: While on passage from Guernsey to Portsmouth on Thursday August 19, 1982, the 30ft ferro-concrete gaff sloop Fairweather Father broke her rudder 18 miles south west by south of the Needles Lighthouse. A... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Silver Line, Boys Own, Quest and Margaret Ann

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

Flamborough, Yorkshire. Towards noon on the morning of the 26th of September, 1959, the weather grew worse at a time when several local fishing cobles were still at sea. The sea was rough, there was a strong northerly wind, and it was high...

Caprella

Date: March 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 371

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—-At 5.25 on the evening of the 18th of November, 1954, the coastguard reported that the tanker Caprella, of Panama, had wire- lessed that she had a sick man on board and needed a doctor. She was at anchor three and a...

Gretafield (1)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

FEBRUARY 4TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At 1.20 A.M. a message was received at Whitehills from the coastguard at Banff that flares had been reported about ten miles N.E....

Noordster

Date: November 1895

Volume: 16

Issue: 178

BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The schooner Noordster, of Alblasserdam, bound from Maracaybo for Hamburg, stranded on a rock, known locally as the "Oil Rock," off Hanover Point, westward of Brooke, in foggy weather on the 24th March. The...

Pilot Me II, of Fraserburgh

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides - At 5.30 a.m. on 2ist February, 1967, the motor fishing vessel Pilot Me II of Fraserburgh was reported to be drifting ashore in the vicinity of Tiumpan Head lighthouse about 14 miles north east of Stornoway. The...

Whitby Lifeboat on the Way to Robin Hood's Bay January 19 1881 Picture By Courtesy of Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society

Date: Autumn 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 474

Whitby lifeboat on the way to Robin Hood's Bay, January 19, 1881.

picture by courtesy of Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society.

Category: Drawings