LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat (2)
SEPTEMBER 17TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. During the night information was received from the postmaster of Northbay that a small rowing boat, with two men aboard, had been caught in a storm in Barra Sound. A strong N.W. gale was blowing,...
Ceremonies
Naming and dedication Ceremonies Great Yarmouth & Gorleston-Atlantic 21 Joseph B. Press The turnout was as good as the glorious weather for the naming ceremony and service of dedication for Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's Atlantic 21...
Category: Inaugurations
Past and Present
6O years ago From THE LIFE-BOAT of 1938 THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats. 137 : Pulling & Sailing Life-boats. 30 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to March 31 si. 1938 65.625 A difficult launch at Exmouth...
Category: Articles
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Trapped in cave TWO BOYS TRAPPED in a cave on the north side of Brean Down were reported to the honorary secretary of Weston-super-Mare ILB station at 1625 on Sunday November 12, 1978, by Barry Coastguard. Maroons were fired at 1632 and the...
A Miles Training Aircraft
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.55 in the af ternoon of the 29th of January, 1949, the police reported an aet-opttie down in the sea about a mile off shore between Lancing and Shoreham, and the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was...
Daniel
LLANDDWYN.—The smack Daniel, of Bangor, was seen approaching the bar while a strong breeze was blowing from the S.W., with a rough sea and thick weather, on the evening of the 1st February. The vessel was at first steering for the South...
Vivid
The fish- ing boat Vivid, belonging to Wexford, struck on the Dogger Bank when re- turning from the fishing grounds on the llth January. Signals of distress were made, and with great promptness the crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 15...
Signora
AIRCRAFT AND LIFE-BOAT SEARCH FOR FISHING BOAT Barrow, Lancashire. At 10.45 on the morning of the 26th February, 1963, the Formby coastguard reported that the fishing boat Signora of Peel had burnt flares twelve miles north-west-by-west of...
Puffin
TOW FOR DINGHY WITH FIVE YOUNG MEN ABOARD Swanage, Dorset. At 3.22 on the afternoon of the 20th August, 1962, the coastguard told the coxswain that a visitor had reported seeing a sailing dinghy dismasted about one mile northeast of Peveril...
Brighter Dawn and Mary Isabella
On the 14th February, the local fishing fleet was caught at sea by a very sudden strong W.N.W. gale. A rough sea was running. The cobles ran for home, and the life-boat coxswain, first ashore in his coble, launched the motor life- boat L.P....