LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (2)
At 9.19 p.m. on 22nd October, 1966, flashing signals, presumed to be SOS, appeared to be coming from a small boat near the Long Nose bouy. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. I/) was launched at 9.41. It was three hours after...
Alderney Queen
OCTOBER 10TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
About 5 A.M. red flares were seen N.W. of Skokholm Island and reported to the life-boat authorities by the naval officer at Milford Haven. A W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough se The...
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Moonbeam, the S.S. City of Dublin and Marie Victoire
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 4.48 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1956, the Foreland coastguard rang up to say that the Cowes police had re- ported a yacht aground on the East Brambles, which was being pounded severely. The life-boat...
Two Fishing Cobles
While the fishing cobles were I out on the 3rd April the S.E. breeze increased and the sea became very heavy. Two cobles nearly foundered i when coming in, and as it was feared that the remainder would come to grief, the Life...
Hephzibah
THUHSO, N.B.—During a severe gale of wind from the N. and a heavy sea, on the night of the 5th March, the schooner HepJmbah, bound from Carnarvon to Newcastle, with slates, and the smack Annie, of Port Binorwie, bound for Wick, showed...
Swift
LOWESTOFT.—The schooner Swift, of Eye, bound to that port from Seaham with coal, was seen with a flag of distress during a gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea at about 11 A.M. on the 12th December, and the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat thereupon...
Emmeline, of Bourdeux
The services of this Life-boat were also called into requisition on the 31st December, on the afternoon of which day a large vessel, distant some eight miles to the eastward of Sidmouth, was seen flying a flag of distress, during stormy...
Theodor
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—On the night of the 29th January, while a strong wind was blowing from E.N.E. the weather being squally and the sea heavy, an intimation was received that the services of the Life-boat were needed. The crew and helpers...