LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
Lifeboat crew help in dinghy tragedy Arranmore Ireland Division Arranmore lifeboat station has received a letter congratulating everyone involved for their conduct in a tragic incident on 29 July 1989 in which four young people lost their...
A Yacht
Yacht sailed to safety by Atlantic 21 crew member Lymington - South East DivisionLymington's Atlantic 21 lifeboat Frank and Mary Atkinson had to put a crew member aboard a yacht off the Shingles Bank during the strong winds of the late...
Suzette
JULY 11TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5 in the morning the coastguard reported that a steam trawler was ashore and then that she was making distress signals, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
Osprey
On the 25th November, at about 7.15 A.M., the Ramsgate Life-boat and steameragain proceeded out in reply to signal guns fired from the Gull Light-ship. A large barque was seen to be ashore on the N.E. part of the Goodwin Sands, to which the...
Eliza, Tom and Hereford
BURNHAM.—The ketch Eliza, of Ljdney, was sailing up the river on the 2nd October, when owing to the state of the weather—a moderate gale blowing from the W.N.W. with strong gusts of wind and a heavy sea—her master considered safer to anchor....
Life-Boats and Aeroplanes
DURING the month of October six Lifeboats were launched in response to signals which were believed to be from aeroplanes in distress. The story of their search shows the way in which the increasing traffic by air is adding to the duties of...
Category: Services
Elise
The No. 2 Life- boat Civil Service No. 1, was launched at 8.30 P.M. on 3rd December during a whole southerly gale to the assistance of the fishing smack Elsie, of Ramsgate, which had stranded on the Long Nose Rock. When the Life-boat got...
Picton
MARGATE.—On the llth February a strong gale was experienced here, the wind blowing from S.S.W. accompanied by a heavy sea and thiek weather, with rain and snow. At 1.50 A.M. the Coastguard reported that the Tongue Lightvessel was firing...
Gracieuse
The weather was so bad on the night of the 6th March that a watch was kept all night and at about 6.30 next morning it was reported that a schooner off the Bull Lighthouse was steering very badly.
She was watched for some...
Herring Boats
At about 6 P.M. on the 25th August several large herring boats and a yacht were to be seen making for port, and two miles N.E. of the pier head the yacht was dismasted. A nasty sea was running and it was blowing very fresh from the north—at...