LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Elizabeth
During a S.E.
gale on the 9th November signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Dogger Bank, and with all haste the Life-boat James Stevens No. 15 was launched to render assistance. When crossing the bar rough...
The Central Appeals Committee
A second attempt a fortnight later began with a favourable light wind and ended in thick fog when the crew could barely see the length of the boat. 'All kinds of ghostly shapes and spectral ships, all manner of imaginary noises and...
Category: Committee
John Patrick
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.45 on the morning of the 7th of September, 1958, the coxswain was told by his brother that the fishing boat John Patrick was missing from her moorings.
The boat could be seen circling west of...
From the "Evening Standard" 100 Years Ago
" WE regret to state that the effects of yesterday's gale have been of a most disastrous character as regards the destruction of property. That human life has not been sacrificed to a most deplorable extent is attributed solely to...
Category: Articles
Victor
POOLS, DORSET.—On the 9th January, at about 2.30 P.M., during a heavy gale from the B.S.E. and a high sea, signals being heard from the sandbanks, the Soys' Own, No. 2, Life-boat was launched, and towed by a steamer to the mouth of the...
Dorothy
Barra Island, Hebrides.—During a whole S.E. gale on the morning of the 15th December, 1938, the steamer Dorothy, of Glasgow, dragged her moorings in Castlebay Harbour and was driven on to the rocks on the west side of the harbour. She was in...
None (2)
Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—In the.morn- ing of the 4th of October, 1949, it was decided to send the life-boat to the islands of Soay and Eigg with pro- visions as, owing to bad weather, the weekly steamer had not called and no other boat was...
Crew of the "Nyon" Being Brought to St. Abbs
(see page 193). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Happy Days
SEPTEMBER 8TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 7.30 P.M. the coastguard reported a motor boat flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Michael Stephens was launched at 7.55 P.M. The position given was one and a half miles...
A Hunter Aircraft (1)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...