LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Windswept swimmer
31 August 2012: Both New Quay lifeboats went to the aid of a swimmer swept out to sea by strong winds and the tide. The inshore crew found the exhausted man 200m from the shore. The two crews then worked together...
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Boydell's Patent Self-Laying Endless Railway
IN an article in this Number of our Journal, on Life-boat Carriages, we have explained the importance of providing as far as possible for the speedy transport of a life-boat along the shore; so that she might, on the occur- rence of a wreck,...
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City of Marseilles
JANUARY 6TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 11.6 A.M. a message was received from the Carnoustie coastguard that the twin-screw steamer City of Marseilles, of Glasgow, of 8,300 tons, bound from Calcutta to Dundee, had been mined off the Fairway...
Susan and Isabella, of Dundee
At day- break on the iJ3rd November, a schooner, the Susan and Isabella, of Dundee, laden with potatoes, was observed under Coquet Island, with signal of distress flying, Her cargo having shifted during the night. The wind was blowing hard...
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Rock pool FALMOUTH COASTGUARD telephoned the deputy launching authority of St Agnes lifeboat station at 1817 on Friday August 6, 1982, reporting a youth trapped on rocks at Porthtowan swimming pool, about 3'/2 miles south west of St...
Wellington of Aberystwith
On the 14th April, during 'a very severe gale of wind, a brig was seen to part from her anchors in the Mumbles Roads, and to bum signals of distress. The Wolverhampton life-boat was promptly launched, and remained by the vessel until,...
Queen Victoria, of Lyne
Signals of distress were observed about half-past eight o'clock on the 10th November, from this Life-boat station, and the Manchester Unity was promptly launched to the assist- ance of the distressed vessel. It turned out that the...
Cassibelaunus, of North Shields
On the 26th November a ship's boat crowded with people was descried from this station scudding before a westerly gale. The Manchester Branch Life-boat William Woodcock was promptly launched, and managed to intercept the boat as she was...
Flora
At 11 A.M. on the 7th August, daring a fresh wind from the N., signals of distress were shown from a vessel on the Hasborough Sands, in reply to which the 'same Life-beat was promptly launched, and found that the vessel was tie...
Glad Tidings
The Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off at 9 P.M. on the 17th May, signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Glad Tidings, of Aberystwith, in ballast, which was in a dangerous position in the bay during a strong gale from the S.W....