LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Douglas, Isle of Man - Ireland Division
Douglas, home of Sir William Hillary the founder of the RNLI, was one of the earliest places in the British Isles to be provided with a lifeboat. Hillary witnessed many shipwrecks there and established the lifeboat stations, himself helping... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sad loss of sail training vessel
Portush and Red Bay lifeboats were launched when the sail training vessel The Lord Rank ran aground off the coast of Co Antrim on 8 June.
There were six people onboard the 21m yacht – five radio DJs and the skipper. In a 4...
Category: Articles
Mid-morning Mayday
15 June: Yarmouth, Solent At 10.33am a mayday call alerted the Yarmouth lifeboat to a yacht in trouble in gale force winds. A female crew member had been hit by the boom and suffered a serious injury. The...
Category: Articles
Mediateur, of Nantes
On the 15th Nov. the surf Life-boat, the Boys, assisted by a steamer, saved the schooner Mediateur, of Nantes, and her crew of 6 men, from a dangerous position near the North Star Battery, Great Yar- mouth. The vessel was damaged in the...
Sjofna, of Oslo
NOVEMBER 23RD. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 2.30 in the morning the Padstow coastguard telephoned that news had been received from the naval authorities at Falmouth that a ship was ashore at Knap Head, near...
Harry
COURTMACSHERRY, Co. Cork. — The fishing-smack Harry, of Courtmacsherry, while getting under weigh to run for shelter from the roadstead to the pier in a heavy W.S.W. gale, at 3 P.M. on the 17th May, lost one of her anchors. When under weigh...
Richard and Francis
LOWESTOFT.—Flares having been seen N.E. of the Newcome Sands, during a strong N.W. wind and a rough sea, on the night-of the 25th November, the Life-boat Two Sisters Mary and Hannah went out at 10 o'clock, and found the sloop Richard and...
Roma
The Coxswain of the Life-boat observed signals of distress from a vessel at 8.45 P.M. on the 7th March during a south-westerly gale. He at once assembled the crew and launched the No. 2 Life-boat Thomas Simcox. On arrival he found the bar-...
Fleetwing
Shortly after noon on the 28th January the brig Fleetwing, of Carnarvonshire, whilst bound to King's Lynn, was observed to miss stays when close to the Scroby sands and let go her anchors. As it was thought that the vessel was on the...
Fishing Cobles
.—Four of the fishing cobles belonging to St. Abbs were overtaken by bad weather when at sea on the 19th March, and were in great stress owing to the heavy sea running. The Life-boat Helen Smitton was launched and stood by three of the boats...