LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Europa
During a whole N.N.W. gale on the 8th January a vessel was sighted dismasted and apparently at anchor about eight miles off Trevose Head. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey were summoned, and in tow of the Institution's tug...
Boy's Own
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 30th of September, 1958, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that two local fishing cobles were at sea. As the weather was deteriorating, the life-boat Friendly Forester was...
The Motor Fishing Boats Success, Venus, Pilot Me and Galilee
At 11.30 A.M. on the 29th December the local motor fishing boats Success, Venus, Pilot Me and Galilee were expected home. A moderate easterly breeze was blowing, with rain showers and fog, and a strong sea, coming with the flood tide, was...
Don't Get Carried Away
Mablethorpe Crew Member Claire MacDonald recommends: 'Please take care with inflatables - the majority of our shouts are for dinghies and rubber rings. Take notice of any warning signs and be aware that offshore winds can take... - View image in PDF
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Hiskilina
At daybreak on the 16th December a schooner was observed in distress be- tween one and two miles off Stonehaven Bay. The weather for three days had been very stormy, with high seas running, and it was feared that she would become a total...
Scud
Littlestone-on-Sea, Kent - At 1.40 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, a crew member informed the honorary secretary that a small pram dinghy was in difficulties three quarters of a mile to seaward. She had dragged her anchor in the wind and tidal...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ILFRACOMBE.—On the 27th May, 1894, the coastguard reported to the coxswain of the Life-boat that a dismasted vessel was lying off Heale Bay, nearly half a mile from the point. A moderate breeze was blowing from N.N.W., the weather was...
Category: Services
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Port St. Mary, and Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 11.10 on the morning of the 23rd of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port St. Mary that fire had broken out on the lighthouse on Chickens Rock. It had been...
Resolue
PETERHEAD.—At 5.30 P.M., on the llth September, The People's Journal No. 1 Life-boat put off, during a gale from the W.S.W., to the assistance of the schooner Resolue, of Lossiemouth, bound from Shetland for Sunderland in ballast, which...
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