LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Minnie
SCARBOROUGH. — While the herring fleet was making for the harbour on the morning of the 6th August, in fine weather with very little wind, a very heavy sea rapidly sprung up. The boats were eagerly watched, and at about 10.45 the Life-boat...
Fishing Boats (2)
At 1 P.M. on the 3rd January the pulling and sailing life-boat Lizzie Porter was launched, as the breaking seas made the harbour entrance risky for the fishing boats. The wind was freshening from the N. to N.E. Eleven local boats were out,...
Mizpa, John and Margaret, and Primrose
Newbiggin, Northumberland.—On the morning of the 30th January the coastguard reported that the fishing cobles Mizpa, John and Margaret and Primrose were out, and as a heavy swell was running, with a moderate westerly breeze, they would be in...
From angling to sinking
When a group of four adults and a child discovered their speedboat was taking on water in choppy seas off Cork's Wild Atlantic Way, they desperately needed a lifeboat crew's...
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Rnli news
NEWS POINT HURRICANE HEROES For those who lived through it, the hurricane which hit the south and south east coasts of England during the early hours of October 16 last will forever be imprinted on their memories.
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MAY 26TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A boy had fallen over the cliff at Berry Head and was too badly injured to be hauled up, but before the life-boat could reach the scene a passing tug had been signalled, had put in to shore and had taken the boy on...
Vasilefs Georgios and Kildonan
At 1.30 A.M. on the 10th February, during a moderate S.S.W. gale the Coastguard reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat John Wesley, that rockets had been observed in Barry Roads.
The Life-boat was launched and found the...
Storm Boy
Man overboard DUNGENESS lifeboat's Emergency Mechanic David Tart was fishing at sea on Wednesday, January 13, 1988 when he observed that a crew member had fallen overboard from the fishing vessel Storm Boy, and that the boat's...
People and Places
Lifeboats in the South Seas - in TongaJust before Christmas, Swanage lifeboat station received news of their old lifeboat, Thomas Markby, which served at the station from 1928 to 1949.
The letter came from the Kingdom of...
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Try Again
REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.—On the 26th August one of the pilots went out in his boat, the Try Again, to bring back another pilot who was taking out a steamer. The wind, which was blowing from N.N.E., increased to a strong gale and a heavy sea sprung...