LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St. Olaf
Llanddulas, NORTH WALES,—On the same morning (14th May), the brigantine St. Olaf, of and from Mandal, Norway, laden with pit-props, for Connah's Quay, near Chester, capsized when about three miles out at sea, off Llanddulas, and her crew...
Brenton, of Fowey
The schooner Brenton, of Fowey, was observed with signals of distress flying, on the Skull Martin Rock, near Ballywalter, on the 4th December. The wind was blow- ing very fresh from N. to N.E., and a heavy sea was running at the time, render...
A Motor Boat, Soloist and Ruskina, a Sailboard and other Boats
Multiple casualties for Atlantic 21 in winds up to Force 10 An arduous service by the West Mersea Atlantic 21 lifeboat, carried out in very rough conditions with the crew using their initiative and local knowledge to assist a large number of...
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Harbour rescue saves unconscious manMost of Oban was safely tucked up in bed when the lifeboat crew's pagers sounded at 12.50am on Monday, 16 April. Clyde Coastguard had received a report of a man in the water just off South Pier, in...
Reviews
The Missions to Seamen.
" At the Sign of the Fly ing Angel." By G. A. Gollock. (Longmans, Green & Co. 5s. net.) IT was 107 years ago that Sir William Hillary, in his Life-boat Appeal, wrote of our seamen that...
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Valhalla and a Yacht
Yacht towed in THE HIGH WINDS OF Sunday August 11, 1985, which brought about a bronze medal service at St Peter Port, Guernsey and vellum services at Weymouth and Ramsgate (already reported in earlier issues), and which involved 39 stations...
Jane and Ellen
ABERSOCH.—On the11th November, at about 3 P.M., the schooner Jane and Ellen, Nefyn, which had parted from her anchors, was observed to show a signal of distress, having struck on a bank at the mouth of the river Soch, during a heavy gale...
Omega, of Newcastle
On the 23rd February, the ship Omega, of Newcastle, was stranded on the Cockle Sand, on the Norfolk coast, during a gale of wind. She afterwards drifted, and sankabout fourteen miles S.E. of Lowestoft.
The Yarmouth and...
Fishing Cobles
CULLERCOATS.—Several cobles which had gone out fishing on the 15th October, were overtaken by a gale which sprang up from the S.E., causing the sea to break heavily on the bar. The Life-boat Co- Operator, No. 1, was launched at about 7.30...
Alpha
On the 21st November the services of the Marie Lane were again called into requisition, signals having been fired by the light vessels. The boat went out at 12.45 A.M., in tow of a steam-tug, and fell in with , of Moss, Norway, drifting near...