LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Caecilie
During an. easterly gale on the 6th March the schooner Oaecilie of Ham- burg was sighted in the offing and she was kept under observation. It was then 2 P.M. and soon after 3 P.M. she stranded at Seaton Point. With all speed the Coxswain and...
Themis
At 5.15 in the morning of the 23rd February, the Coastguard reported that he had been watching a vessel for some time, and apparently she was on the North Rock.
The crew of the Life-boat Faith were assembled at the...
The S.S. Vigilant
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—A telegram reporting a vessel ashore in Port St.
Mary Bay was received early on the morning of the 7th February, while a moderate gale was blowing from the S., with a very heavy sea. The snow having...
A Life-Boat Revue at Hythe
THE Hythe life-boat crew and their friends gave their third entertainment last February.1 This time it was a revue in four scenes called "Lifeboatania." It began with a representation of a storm and a rescue so realistic that the...
Category: Branches
Lone Star
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Lone Star, with one man on board, was twenty-four hours overdue from...
Marylis
Kllmore, Co. Wexford.—On the morn- ing of the 10th of February, 1956, a man reported that the trawler Marylis, of Lorient, had run on the rocks in Ballyhealy Bay and that her crew of nine needed help. At 10.35 the life- boat Ann Isabella...
Trude-K
SOS SOUNDED At 11.38 a.m. the following day, a man at Cawsand told the coxswain that a small cargo boat was listing heavily and sounding SOS with her siren. There was a moderate to fresh breeze, a heavy swell, and it was i\ hours after low...
During Severe Gales Which Swept the North West on Friday November 11 New Brighton Dodo Tractor Was In Full Action Going Down to Check the Boathouse at 2230
During severe gales which swept the north west on Friday, November 11, New Brighton DODO tractor was in full action.
Going down to check the boathouse at 2230, Crew Member Cliff Downing found the promenade flooded and more... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Prawn Boat Capella
JANUARY 19TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 10.10 A.M. information was given by an incoming trawler that the mast and sail of a vessel could be seen above water about a mile west of Wyre Lighthouse. A southerly wind was...
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DECEMBER 20TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 12.5 in the afternoon the Ramsey coastguard reported that they had received information of a vessel in distress. Ten minutes later the position was given as Castletown Bay, and five minutes...