LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Albin Ballad
Rough tow A RED ROCKET sighted by Shoreham Coastguard, Sussex, eight miles due south of Littlehampton at 2.58 a.m. on the morning of August 5, 1973, led to the launching a quarter of an hour later of the lifeboat Dorothy and Philip Constant,...
Wonder
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress were seen in the outer harbour at 10 P.M.
on the 30th September last during stormy weather and a rough sea. The Thomas Fielden Life-boat was launched, proceeded outside Salt Island, and found...
A Fishing Boat
MONTBOSE.—On the 28th of January, about thirty large decked-boats, and twenty smaller ones went out to the fishing-grounds at about 4 A.M. during a light wind from the N.W. About 10 o'clock the wind suddenly shifted to...
Julia
The schooner Julia, of and for Lowestoft, from Hartlepool, with a cargo of coal, and having a crew of four men, was seen to take the ground on the North part of the Barber Sand, at about 4.30 M. on the 25th of February, during N.E. by E....
City of Hamburg
SALCOMBE.—At 10 P.M. on the 7th August, a boat, containing the master of the steamer City of Hamburg, of Dublin, whose hands and arms were severely injured, and five other persons, arrived at Salcombe, and her occupants reported their vessel...
Expedite
A fine service was performed by the Laetitia, the Life-boat stationed here, on the 13th November. the morning of that day she went off to tow of the steam-tug Bairibow to a Norwegian vessel named Expedite, belong- Iing to Drobeck, which had...
Two Fishing Boats
Shortly after 10 A.M. on the 20th March a telephone message was received from Gourdon intimating that a very heavy sea was running at the harbour mouth, and that the fishing-boats had been warned not to attempt to come in, and, further, that...
Mea
The yacht Mea, of Hoylake, a cutter of about four tons, left Beaumaris at about 10 A.M.
on the 24th August, but owing to dark- ness was unable to make Hoylake.
Having no lights the two occupants cruised...
Fishing Cobles (1)
The coxswain received a telephone message about 10 A.M. on the llth January, stating that three fishing cobles were in danger off Alnmouth and unable to make any headway against the prevail- ing W.S.W. gale and ebb tide. The Life-boat...
The Punt Rapid
About 10 P.M.
on the 9th June it was reported that a punt, named the Sapid, belonging to Southwold, had not returned ashore.
As the wind was blowing strongly O O t' from E. by S., accompanied by a...