LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (2)
JANUARY 26TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
A message from the coastguard reported an aeroplane in the sea off Red Wharf, and the motor life-boat G.W. was launched at 1.30 P.M. The sea was moderate, with a moderate easterly wind....
Sticky situation
Weston-super-Mare’s lifeboats were needed on 31 May when a family of nine, including six children, got stuck in mud at the mouth of the River Axe.
The crew of the D class lifeboat were forced to beach her alongside the...
Category: Articles
Collisions at Sea In Fogs
THE Council of the SOCIETY OF ARTS appointed a Committee in March, 1883, with the full concurrence of the Marine Department of the BOARD OP TRADE, to inquire into and consider the question of collision at sea, the scope of the in- quiry...
Category: Articles
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MAY 18TH. - GALWAY BAY. During the afternoon an urgent request for the help of the life-boat was received from a doctor to take him to a serious pneumonia case on Inisheer Island. No other boat was available, and at 4.50 the motor life-boat...
Dorothea
RAMSGATE. — At 9 P.M. on the 31st January, when blowing hard from the S.W., in answer to signals of distress from the Gull Lightship, the steam-tug Aid, with the Life-boat Bradford in tow, proceeded to the dismasted barque Dorothea, of...
Liban
PORTHCAWL, SOUTH WALES,—At about 7 A.M. on the 29th March, a boat containing the captain and three of the crew of the steamer Liban, of Nantes, landed at Porthcawl, and reported that their vessel had stranded on the Tuskar rocks,during a...
Margaret Gunn
HUNA, CAITHNESS-SHIEE.—During a gale of wind from the W.S.W., and an exceedi ingly rough sea, on the 20th January, the Life-boat W.M.C. was launched, at 1 A.M., to the assistance of the fishing-boat Mar- garet Ounn, of Wick, which was in a...
Paola
PALLING, NORFOLK.—During a fresh breeze from the N.W. on the 3rd November, a steamer was observed on the Hasborough Sands showing signals of distress. The British Workman Life-boat was launched at 9 A.M. and proceeded to the vessel, which...
Squirrel
The Montrose No. 1 Life-boat Augustawas launched at 2 P.M. on the 19th March, during an E. wind and a sea which was breaking heavily on the bar, so as to be in readiness to render assistance to two small fishing boats, of Ferryden, which had...
Athol, of Ardrossan
On the 29th January, the schooner Atkol, of Ardrossan, was observed riding heavily between Irvine and Lady's Isle. The wind was blowing from the N.W., with heavy squalls and showers of rain.
The Pringle Kidd life-boat...