LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Enterprise
The coastguard on duty havingobserved a schooner part her cable, and drift towards the heavy breakers in the S.E. part of the bay on the 9th February, during a N. by W. wind, a very rough sea, and heavy storms of snow and hail, the crew of...
A Small Motor Boat Flora MacDonald
MAY 10TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At eight in the evening of the 9th a man went out in his small motor boat Flora MacDonald, with his father-in-law. At 11.50 his wife reported that the boat had not returned.
At 12.45 next...
A Sailing Dinghy
A SAILING DINGHY in difficulties off Little Orme was sighted by Llandudno deputy launching authority and station mechanic at 1525 on April 27, 1974. The DLA immediately advised HM Coastguard and assembled the crew.
The wind...
Walter J. Cummins
During an ex- ceptionally severe northerly gale and very heavy sea on the 8th January signals of distress were observed from the brigantine Walter J. Cummins, of Irvine, which lay off Moelfre weather bound, whilst bound from Wicklow to...
Fifty-Three Years' Service. Second Coxswain William Mowat, of Longhope, and Mr. Edward Bensley, of Gorleston
Second Coxswain William Mowat, of Longhope, and Mr. Edward Bensley, of Gorleston.
Two life-boatmen died last October, each of whom had the remarkable record of fifty-three years' service in the life-boat. One was...
Category: Obituaries
Montauban
JANUARY 9TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE, AND HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. At about 5 A.M. information was received through the Cullercoats Wireless Station that a vessel was in distress. The weather was calm and fine, but cold. The motor life-boat Louisa...
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Howth, Co. Dublin - At 6.35 p.m. on 30th April, 1966, the Garda informed the motor mechanic that two boys were stranded at the foot of the cliff at Castena Bay. The fire brigade had been unable to reach them. In the absence of the honorary...
Ben Bhrackie
Aith, Shetlands. At 12.54 on the afternoon of the 25th of March, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the trawler Ben Bhrackie of Aberdeen, which was then twenty-five miles north of Vee Skerries,...
News
A new boat on the coastA new lifeboat will enter the RNLI's fleet of lifeboats in 2003. The untrained eye may not be able to spot any difference between the new boat and the one it will replace, but the changes that have been made will...
Category: Articles
Heiloo
HELP FOR DUTCH VESSEL At 7.24 p.m. on I7th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch motor vessel Heiloo, of Flushing, was aground on the Knoll Sands. There was a gale from the southsouth- west with a...