LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wilma
At 11 P.M.
on the 26th January signals were observed from the Newarp Light-vessel, and in response the No. 2 Life-boat Elinor Brown was launched. On reaching the Light-vessel, it was found that the brigantine Wilma, of...
Envermue
On the evening of the 22nd April the Coastguard re- ported that a steamer was ashore on the rocks to the west of St. Alban's Head, and making signals of distress; • and a subsequent message from Kim- meridge smggested that the Life-boat...
Barbadian
On the 6th December intelligence was received at Wexford that a large vessel was stranded on the Blackwater Bank.
The weather was very thick at the time, with a strong wind and heavy sea. The Wexford large life-boat at...
Peak Performance:
Peak performance: On the longest day in June last year Richard Price, a new crew member at Fleetwood lifeboat station, led a team of 36 people up to Scotland for the start of a three peak marathon. The team climbed Ben Nevis, (some of them... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Brothers
On the 24th March the sea was very heavy from the early morning, and the coble Two Brothers, of North Sunderland, was the only one to go out, her lines having been shot overnight, and the crew were very anxious to get them. About noon the...
Summary of Services
The summary of the year's services by life-boats which has previously appeared in the March number of THE LIFE-BOAT will in future be published as a separate supplement. The supplement will be incorporated in all the bound...
Category: Services
A Canoe (1)
At 5.18 p.m. on nth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an R.A.F. helicopter had been dispatched to search for a light blue two seater canoe missing between North Foreland and Deal. The canoe was last seen one...
Eight Bells
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH ENGINE FAILURE Arbroath, Angus. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 5th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Eight Bells of Arbroath had engine faiJure off Auchmithie....
None (3)
Kilmore, Wexford.—At half past two in the afternoon on the 8th of August, 1949, a signal fire was seen on the Great Saltee Island. Two men were known to be camping there and, as a strong south-westerly breeze was blowing with a rough sea and...
Pauline
Howth, Co. Dublin.—Two yachts were overdue from a local yacht race on the 17th of June, 1951. A message was received that one of them had been in trouble and was being towed by the other, so the life-boat decided to put out. At 4.30 that...