LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vestvard
Ramsgate, Kent. — The Norwegian motor vessel Vestvard, of Oslo, ran on the sands, about two miles and a half from the East Goodwin light- vessel, during a thick fog early on the morning of the 18th February. The wind was very light, from the...
A Yacht
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a fourteen-feet yacht, with a man and his wife on board, had capsized off Traeth Bychan. At 4.25 the life-boat Watkin Williams was...
A Speed Boat
Parachutist saved - with dry feetj Clacton lifeboatmen were involved in a most unusual service on 27 June, when they rescued a young woman parachutist while she was still airborne! The station's Atlantic 21 was called out when a...
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 3.25 in the afternoon of the 31st of July, 1949, information was received through the coastguard at Easington that a rubber dinghy was drifting half a mile off Easington, and the life-boat City of Bradford //was...
Geir
The steamer Geir, of Bergen, whilst bound for Blyth in ballast, stranded on the Knavestone Rock, Fame Islands, on the night of the 18th February, during a northerly gale and heavy sea. Information reached the North Sunderland Life-boat...
Star of Peace and Mary Ann
WHITBY.—Two fishing-cobles belonging to this port, the Star of Peace and the Mary Ann, were observed to be making for the harbour on the evening of the 27th July. On account of the heavy sea and the ebb tide running out it was seen that...
July (1)
MEENLARAGH, Co. DONEGAL. At about four in the afternoon of 7th March, 1942, the motor boat Pride of Drumcliffe, with a crew of six men, was returning to the mainland with mails from Tory Island. As she got near the island in Innishbofin Bay,...
Category: Services
Adroity
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 6.29 on the evening of the 12th of March, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the tanker Adroity, of London, had run on the sands about two miles south-east- by-east of the coastguard station. At 7.20 the...
Seniority
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 10.2 on the night of the 28th of March, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Seniority, of London, that she had lost an anchor and was drifting towards...
Arrow, of Derbyhaven
OCTOBER 27TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 3.30 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was flying a distress signal south-east of Scarlett Point. A strong westerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor...