LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ballyglass Lifeboat Station
Bailygiass lifeboat station was established in the early 1990s to provide cover for a bleak and exposed section of the Irish Atlantic coast. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lady Beatrice D
Margate, Kent.—At 7.16 on the even- ing of the 7th of July, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a small motor yacht was drifting out to sea near the feast Margate buoy. At 7.25 the life- boat North Foreland (Civil Service...
Two Rafts From Solstad
JANUARY 6TH - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
At 5.25 in the morning the resident naval officer at Penzance reported that a convoy had been attacked about five miles south of Treen coastguard hut. A moderate southwest wind was blowing...
Inshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1979
Aberdovey, Gwynedd June 2 (twice), 15, July 12, 22 (twice), 26, 28, 29, August 15, 26 and 30 Abersoch, Gwynedd June 22, 27, July 21, 30, August 2 (twice), 7, 9, 16, 23 and 26 Aberystwyth, Dyfed July 6, 29, August 19 and 29 Aldeburgh, Suffolk...
Category: Services
A Barge (1)
10th Novem- ber. A barge was known to have gone ashore, but the life-boat could not find her in the darkness, as she had no lights. The barge remained ashore, but her crew were in no danger.—Perma- nent crew; Rewards, £1 2s....
An Aeroplane (130)
AUGUST 3lST. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.
The pilot of a British aeroplane had wirelessed that he was baling out about 3 miles N.W. of Rhyl, but the life-boat was recalled before she reached the position given. - Rewards, £16...
Asterionella (1)
Capsize THE DAY OF TUESDAY AUGUST 26, 1986, dawned at Brighton with gale force winds blowing from the south south west, gusting to force 9 and skies overcast with a slight drizzle. Very heavy seas were running and waves up to 15 feet in...
Fishing Cobles (1)
A severe gale having suddenly sprung up on the morning of the 31st October, all the fishing-cobles at once hastened back to port, but at 8.20 the Scarborough Coast- guard reported by telephone that a motor fishing-boat belonging to Scar-...
Marie Helene
The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 10.45 P-m- °n 29tn June, 1967, it was learned that flares had been sighted 14 miles east south east of the Lizard. This was confirmed by the Norwegian motor vessel Possum. The life-boat, The Duke of...
Skjoldborg
Boulmer, Northumberland.— On the morning of the 12th February, 1938, a vessel, which had been under observation, brought up in Alnmouth Bay. A northerly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The vessel was the auxiliary motor schooner...