LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Victor and Prairie Schooner (1)
Exhausted yachtsmen BRONZE MEDAL THE YACHT Sea Victor, built in Germany during the 1930s, had sailed from Exmouth on the morning of Friday May 2, 1986, on passage to Guernsey. By the evening of the following day after a rough crossing the...
The Italian Vessel S.S. Concordia (1)
DURING the south-westerly gales of extraordinary violence, which burst over the south-west and south of England in the second week of July, and lasted for two or three days, eight Life-boats along the south coast were launched, and three of...
The Latvian Steamer Helena Faulbaums (1)
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, and Barra Island, Hebrides.—On the night of the 26th October the Latvian steamer Helena Faulbaums, of Riga, bound light from Liverpool to Blyth, was caught in a sudden and exceptionally severe storm near Jura...
The Danish Coaster Lady Kamilla (1)
Storm search A PROLONGED SEARCH was made by Padstow, St Ives and Clovelly lifeboats in a south-westerly storm for the Danish coaster Lady Kamilla, which foundered off Trevose Head on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1977, and for her crew of nine...
The Danish Gas Tanker Inga Tholstrup (1)
Gas tanker aground A DANISH GAS TANKER, Inga Tholstrup, ran aground on Craig Waugh, two miles south east of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, early in the morning of Monday November 10, 1986. Forth Coastguard alerted Dunbar lifeboat station,...
The Cyprus-Registered Cargo Vessel Retriever (1)
TWO BOATS AT SEA FOR A TOTAL OF 13 HOURS Escort for listing cargo boat in 70 knot winds Sennen Cove and Clovelly - South West Division Sennen Cove's relief Rother The Davys Family was launched in winds gusting up to 71 knots on 25 March...
The S.S. Saintfield, of Belfast (1)
MAY 1ST. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. In the early morning the S.S. Saintfield, of Belfast, bound from the Tyne to Poole, with coal, ran ashore in foggy weather about two miles north of Flamborough. The call for a life-boat was...
Arcadia and the S.S. Eastwood (1)
JANUARY 9TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK, AND SKEGNESS LINCOLNSHIRE.
Information was received at Wells from the coastguard at about 4.48 PM. that a tug was showing flares off Scolt Head. A strong northerly wind was blowing, with a...
The Greek Freighter Athina B. (1)
Twenty-six rescued HM COASTGUARD at Shoreham MRSC telephoned the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 0817 on Monday January 21 asking that the lifeboat be placed on standby; a merchant vessel, the 3,500-ton Greek...
The Dutch Oil Tanker Georgia (1)
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...