LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The French Naval Vessel Victorieuse
Dungeness, Kent.—There was fog in the morning of the 2nd of March, 1948, and at 8.20 distress signals were heard. At 8.45 the motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a moderate north-easterly breeze, with a choppy sea, and...
A Boat (2)
JUNE 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
Seven soldiers had gone fishing in a small boat. There was a dense fog.
Nothing was found, and it was learned later that the men had been picked up by a trawler. An...
Glenbervie
CAISTER.—On the morning of the 23rd February, 1896, the Cockle Light-vessel fired guns and rockets. The Life-boat Covent Garden was taken out of her house, and while she was being launched a coastguardman arrived and informed the coxswain...
Oliver Lloyd and Turtle Dove
On the morn- ing of the 6th January the Manchester life- boat, the John Stuart, went off and succeeded in rescuing the crew of 3 men from the sloop Oliver Lloyd, of Cardigan, and 3 men from the smack Turtle Dove, of Aberystwith, which had...
RNLI
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Bolivar
NORWEGIAN STEAMER BREAKS IN TWO Dun Laoghaire, and Howth, Co. Dublin.
—On the 4th of March, 1947, the Norwegian motor vessel, Bolivar, of Oslo, ran aground on the northern end of the Kish Bank, seven and a half...
Brothers
TENBY.—On the morning of the 8th February, during a heavy westerly gale, the ketch Brothers lying in Caldy Roads, parted her chain. She then made sail, and stood across the bay, when her mainboom was carried away, which disabled her, and...
Silver Line
Flamborough, Yorkshire. — About 12.30 on the afternoon of the 13th of January, 1954, the coxswain felt anxious for the safety of three men in the local fishing coble Silver Line, who were fishing east-north-east of Flam- borough Head in bad...
Petan
Humber, Yorkshire - At 3.21 p.m. on 13th September, 1966, it was seen that a cabin cruiser was being towed towards Spurn Head by the pilot launch. They were kept under observation for some tune, and as there was a heavy swell running and...
Ostendea
THALEE BAT, Co. KERRY.—On the 22nd November the Admiral Butcher Life-boat proceeded to the barque Ostendea, and brought ashore the master, for the purpose of procuring assistance and a tug to tow the vessel to Limerick for repairs, she...