LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The schooner Noordster, of Alblasserdam, bound from Maracaybo for Hamburg, stranded on a rock, known locally as the "Oil Rock," off Hanover Point, westward of Brooke, in foggy weather on the 24th March. The...

.— On the 19th July at about 1.30 P.M. a small yacht was seen ashore on the N.E. Buxey Sand, but as she was in no danger no assistance was sent. Later in the afternoon, however, the wind got more into the east and increased to a strong...

Launches 61 Lives rescued 72

FEBRUARY 1ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.24 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen four miles south-west-by-west of Clacton pier, and half an hour later...

AIRBORNE LIFE-BOATS 0 I was looking at back numbers of THE LIFEBOAT and came on your issue of January, 1971, in which an airborne life-boat in connection with the Wells, Norfolk, article was shown being dropped off the east coast on 5th May,...

Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1956, a message was received from Valentia radio that the Dutch motor vessel Stientje Mensinga had picked up the small yacht Julia ten miles north-east...

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 1st of December, 1954, the Commissioners of Irish Lights telephoned that a workman, who had been weather-bound in the Skelligs Rock lighthouse for a fort- night, had been taken ill and...

Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...