LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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DECEMBER 19TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
At 3.45 in the afternoon the postmaster at Sandness telephoned that a woman was seriously ill on the island of Papa-Stour and that a doctor was urgently needed. A full gale had been blowing...
Skylark, of Poole
APRIL 21ST. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. During the afternoon the motor boat Skylark, of Poole, foundered in Bournemouth Bay when on a pleasure cruise with about seventy people on board.
The weather was fine, the sea...
Atlantic evolution
For years, students and teachers at Atlantic College have volunteered for a lifeboat crew ready to launch off the south Wales coast. But now the College has a new lifesaving focus. While the lifeboat station has now closed, students have...
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Gallant and Humane Conduct of Swedes and Norse-Men
DURING the autumn of the year 1852, a year that will long be remembered as one of the most fatal on record to the shipping of this country) the unprecedented number of 1115 wrecks having occurred along the shores and within the seas of the...
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George, of Lowestoft
At daybreak on the morning of the 12th December a brig was observed on her broadside off this station, with her crew of 6 men in their boat, a short distance from the vessel. There was a heavy surf breaking on the shore at the time, and,...
Besty Ann, of Port Gordon
On the 4th August a severe gale from N.N.W. burst over this coast, and the fishing fleet, which did not return the previous evening, when the weather became threatening, was caught in the gale. The lugger Betsey Ann, of Port Gordon, N.B.,...
Two Sisters, of Aberystwith and Smack David, of Cardigan
On the 26th October, while it was blowing a heavy gale from the north, with a high sea on, two vessels at anchor in the roadstead hoisted signals of distress. The same valuable life-boat was immediately launched, and went to their assistance...
Two Aeroplanes
MAY 24TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 4.40 P.M. the senior naval officer reported that two aeroplanes had crashed in flames, and the motor lifeboat John and Charles Kennedy was launched at 4.45 P.M. A light westerly...
Safe Landings?
High Summer always draws swimmers to the sea, but only the toughest would brave the weather buffeting Flamborough Head on the afternoon of 22 August 2007. As Elizabeth Paine reports, one such soul tested a new lifeboat and her crew in a race...
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Mystery
CAISTER.—On the 6th November, flare lights having been seen in the direction of the Cross Sand, the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden proceeded out, and found the fishing-smack Mystery, of Great Yar- mouth, just off the sand. She was partly...