LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Auguste
ATHERFIELD, ISLE OF WlGHT.—The Life-boat Catherine Swift was launched at about 5.30 P.M. on the 15th February, the coxswain, while on the cliff, having observed a large barque strike on the Eastern Ledge at Atherfield and immediately swing...
Alf
Epic rescue at RosslareA French trawler with five crew was drifting without power 14 mites south of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse on the south coast of Ireland so the Arun class Mabel Williams slipped her moorings at 2.37pm on 5 November...
Edith
MOELPRE, ANGLESEY.—The schooner Edith, of Newry, bound from Liverpool for Drogheda, co. Louth, with coal, was lying in the outer roads while a whole gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather, on the 25th...
Imogene & Harmony
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seas accompanied a whole S.W. gale on the 15th March, and soon after daylight signals were observed from two vessels in the roads. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was immediately ordered out and...
Grietje
THREE LIFE-BOATS OUT TO DUTCH VESSEL Port Erin, Port St. Mary, and Douglas, Isle of Man. At 4.15 on the morning of the 5th February, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Port St. Mary life-boat station that a vessel...
A Dinghy (1)
DIFFICULT RESCUE FROM ROCK THE Pwllheli life-boat and the Abersoch ILB, stationed on the Caernarvonshire coast, answered a call on 25th June, 1972, when two men in a motor boat were reported overdue.
The search started when...
A Rowing Boat (1)
At 8.25 p.m. on 2nd September, 1969, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been sighted about four miles east of the coastguard lookout.
The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 8.35 in a moderate...
Morning Breeze
Selsey, Sussex.—At 5.40 on the after- noon of the 9th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the Chichester police had reported a yacht in difficulties half a mile off Brackles- ham Bay. At six o'clock the life-boat Canadian...
None (2)
Two girls stranded A DOCK POLICEMAN at Hartlepool saw two girls stranded on a sewer pipe near Seaton Beach on the afternoon of Sunday May 27. He informed the Dock Master's office immediately and, as the crew were in the vicinity of the...
Rescue By a Grimsby Trawler
THE Institution has presented its Thanks inscribed on Vellum to be hung on board the steam trawler Cuirass, of Grimsby, an inscribed Binocular Glass to the skipper, Mr. W. Brewster, and a monetary reward to each member of his crew for their...
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