LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Irish Ship River Avoca
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.30 p.m.
on 25th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Irish ship River Avoca required a doctor to attend and bring ashore a member of the crew suffering from severe and continuous stomach...
Picturesque Postcard
Readers may be interested in this postcard photograph of Douglas lifeboat. It is one of several that came into the possession of my wife, Manx by birth, from her immediate family.
Although the lifeboat pictures are not... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Roxby
Nov. 19TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 10.35 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that signals for a doctor had been made by the S.S. Roxby, of West Hartlepool, anchored in the Downs. A strong W.N.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate...
William Miles
POBTHOAWI, SOUTH WALES.—The barque William, Miles, of London, bound from Havre to Swansea in ballast, stranded about half a mile east of Porthcawl, during a W.N.W. wind and a rough sea, at midnight on the 9ih August. She exhibited signals of...
Corsair
COUBTOWN, Co. WEXFORD.—The Alfred and Ernest Life-boat put off at noon on the 9th August, signals of distress having been shown from the schooner Corsair, of Arklow. That vessel had for several months past been stranded on the beach about a...
Some Unusual Services
Rescue of Bathers.
DURING the summer there have, been several unusual calls made upon Life- boats, and in four cases it has been found necessary to launch them to bathers in distress. At Sennen Cove, on the afternoon of...
Category: Services
Grace Darling
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. — What was reported locally as " a most admirable service, quickly and gallantly rendered," was that performed by the new Life-boat on this station—the Mary Isabella—on the 16th September. On the afternoon of...
A Rowing Boat
MEN AND CHILDREN ON THE ROCKS Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 10.35 on the night of the 29th of August, 1947, it was reported that a rowing boat, which had left at 6.30 with two men and two children on board, had not returned, and later a message...
None
Aith, Shetland*. — At 6.15 in the evening of the 22nd of March, 1948, a telephone message was received from a doctor that a man was seriously ill on the island of Papa Stour. A north- north-west gale was blowing with a very heavy sea, and...
A Small Boat (1)
Maryport, Cumberland.—At 6.35 in the evening of the 12th of November, 1948, it was reported that the life-boat bowman had gone fishing to the north in a small boat and had not returned.
A strong, squally wind was blowing...