LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Atlantis
ENGINE FAILURE Selsey, Sussex. At 1.15 p.m. on nth January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German motor vessel Atlantis then two miles south-west of Littlehampton had broken down with engine trouble and...
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Lifeboat Services
Withernsea East Division HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS TEST LIFEBOAT TO LIMITS Sick yachtsman rescued in Gale force winds and 15ft seas John Hartland, 42, helmsman of the Withernsea inshore lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze Medal...
Category: Services
Mountblairy, of Plymouth
Rosslare Harbour (Co. Wexford).
On the 20th October, the schooner Mountblairy, of Plymouth, was driven ashore about five miles from Rosslare Harbour in a whole gale, with a very heavy sea running. She lay surrounded by...
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...
Menai Packet
On the 11th November, at about 5 P.M., the smack Menai Packet, of Carnarvon, bound from Swansea to Newry, with coal, which was riding at anchor in Forthdinllaen Bay, showed a signal of distress.
As the •wiad -was not...
Lost at sea
4 September: Hunstanton After receiving reports of a narrow boat in difficulty, the volunteer crew of Hunstanton lifeboat were called to investigate. They found onboard a lone sailor and two dogs. When they...
Category: Articles
Heptarchy
Ten saved as disabled yacht is struck by storm force winds The Lizard's Tyne class lifeboat David Robinson was at sea for more than 12 hours in atrocious conditions on 30 May 1993 when she went to the aid of a 56ft yacht in difficulties...
Galway Crew Thanked
A letter has been received from the Greek Ministry of Merchant Marine highly commending the courage and resolution of the crew of the Galway Bay life-boat when she went to the help of the motor vessel Razani and her crew of eight on 26th...
Category: Correspondence
Fubbs
TWO YACHTS RESCUED St. Ive», Cornwall.—At 3.27 in the after- noon of the 12th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported that a yacht, which had been in the neighbourhood of Cape Cornwall since early morning, had last been seen at 12.20...