LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Adventure
Newbiggin, Northumberland.—At 7.30 in the morning of the 12th of August, 1948, the life-boat coxswain returned from sea and reported that wind and sea were rising. He kept watch. At 8.20 the coastguard rang up to say that two cobles were...
Services of Life-Boats
YOUHGHAL, IRELAND.—On the 8th February, the Norwegian barque Galatea ran on shore on the bar at the entrance of Youghal harbour, the captain having mistaken the port for Queenstown: a gale of wind was blowing at the time from the south, and...
Category: Services
The S.S. Yewdale
MAY 30TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.45 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a vessel with dead and wounded men on board had arrived in the Downs and that a doctor was wanted. A light northerly breeze was blowing and the sea...
Egmont
At 12.30 A.M. on the 18th December, the smack Alicia brought news of a vessel having gone ashore on the Kentish, Knock Sand. The Life-boat Bradford at once proceeded, in tow of the harbour steamer Vulcan, through the Cudd Channel, and...
Fishing Boats (2)
On the 21st February a heavy sea sprung up while fishing-boats were out, and timely assistance was rendered to them by the Life-boats Ephraim and Hannah Fox, stationed at Robin Hood's Bay; the Co-operator No. 1, of Cullercoats; and the...
A Motor Boat
Stronsay, and Stromness, Orkneys.— At 10.24 on the night of the 26th of May, 1954, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned the Stronsay life-boat sta- tion that a man had left St. Catherine's Bay in a motor boat for Kirkwall at five...
Loss of Life at Sea
THE remarks contained in the following opportune communication from the Rev. J. Scarth, are deserving of every consideration, notwithstanding that they only repeat the oft-told tale in regard to the dreadful loss of life at...
Category: Articles
A Vessel (2)
Holy Island and North Sunderland, Northumberland.
—Early on the morning of the 28th February the coastguard reported to the Holy Island life-boat station that a vessel was in distress in Goswick Bay. A north-easterly...
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The search and rescue and executive committees of the RNLI each gave the suit their...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm (1)
Montrose, and Broughty Ferry, Angus, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, and Gourdon,Kincardineshire.—At 4.52 in the after- noon of the 7th of March, 1952, the S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm, bound for Sweden from Methie, wirelessed that she was leaking...