LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alex Van Opstal
SEPT. l5TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 7.20 P . M . the coastguards telephoned that four boats were adrift near the Shambles Lightship with the crew of a Belgian steamer on board. The weather was fine. The motor life-boat...
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Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 5th of May, 1954, the Coast Life-saving Service at Skerries telephoned that two boys were stranded on an uninhabited island off Skerries.
At 7.50 the life-boat George...
Rival
On the 28th December, at 4 A.M., large flares were seen in the direction of the Cross Sand. The Life-boat Covent Garden was launched, and proceeded to the Cross Sand, on "which, a very heavy sea -was running, and found a brig ashore on...
Phillip’s Defence Unit No.1 and H.M. Trawler Almondine
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT THE HUMBER JANUARY 6TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 7.57 in the evening the station received a request from the extended defence officer for the life-boat to go to the help of Phillip’s defence unit No. l*, which was...
Brazil, of Liverpool
On the 26th De- cember the barque Brazil, of Liverpool, from Bangor to Maine, U.S., timber laden, having been disabled by loss of sails, was driven on the Salthouse Bank in a westerly gale, with a heavy sea running. On her being discovered...
Stranded in a storm
When a trawler hit propeller problems in force 9 winds and high seas, it took the skill and bravery of two lifeboat crews to bring the fishermen back to safety
On the belts, in the pockets and...
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Albas
High and dry on the Goodwins RAMSGATE HONORARY SECRETARY Was informed by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2025 on Thursday, September 11, 1975, that, following a number of reports of red flares sighted over the Goodwin Sands, Walmer lifeboat had...
Sarah and Silver
On the 26th February the No. 1 Lifeboat Augusta was again launched at 12.30 P.M., the fishing fleet having again been overtaken by a storm, the wind blowing strongly from the E. and the sea being very heavy. . Most of the boats had returned...
Rescue
RESCUE D LifeBoAt CReW sAVes eAsteR BUNNy! Tobermory lifeboat crew had an unusual, yet appropriate, casualty to rescue on Easter Sunday in the form of a pet rabbit. Four adults, two children, a dog and the rabbit were onboard the yacht Blue...
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Express
ARKLOW. — On the morning of the 28th March, the schooner Express, of and for Wexford, from Dublin, while beating down against a strong S.W. wind between the Arklow Bank and the mainland, the weather at the time being thick, with rain, stood...