LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Celestina
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—At daybreak on the 30th January the barque Celestina, of Fiume, which had been riding in the bay for some days, was seen dismasted but riding easily at her anchor. Subsequently signals were shown, and, in response to...
Two Motor Patrol Boats No. 1091, and No. 1086
AUGUST 23RD. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
About six o’clock in the evening the coastguard reported a small motor vessel aground at the mouth of the River Ugie, two miles north of Peterhead, with a fishing boat standing by....
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JULY 30TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 3.50 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that he could see three people on the wreck of the minesweeper Unicity on the beach in Blyth Bay. The minesweeper had capsized just eighteen months...
Ellen
CARDIGAN.—On the 9th September the John Stuart Life-boat with some difficulty brought ashore the crew, consisting of 3 men, of the schooner Ellen, of Beaumaris, which had parted her cables during a heavy N.W. gale and tremendous sea near...
Industry
A signal of distress was observed from a vessel in Forthdinllaen Bay during a strong gale from the N.W. on the 22nd December. The crew of the George Moore Life-boat immediately assembled, the Boat was launched at 5.30 P.M. and rescued the...
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Galway Bay - At 5.40 p.m. on 2nd November, 1966, the local doctor requested the services of the life-boat to attend a woman on Inishere Island who was seriously ill. At 6.30 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson with the doctor on board, left...
Ballymena Round Table
Four members o/Ballymena Round Table took it in turns to water-ski across the Irish Sea from Cushendall to Southend, near Campbeltown.
It took them 2% hours and they raised £675 in sponsorship for Ballymena branch.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stormalong
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.37 oil the morning of the 18th of May, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht was burning a flare near West Shoebury Buoy. At 6.10 the life- boat Greater London II, Civil Service No. 30, which had been...
Crossword Results
The prize winners of the July life-boat crossword, which concludes the series, were: 1st, Mrs. L. S. Lamb, Broadway, Worcester, 2nd, W. P. Dobson, Milnthorpe, Westmorland, and 3rd, Mrs. B. R. Ostler, Loughton, Essex.
The...
Category: Articles
Amelia, of Torquay
The Lowestoft life-boat also went out on the 3rd March, in reply- to signals of distress during a heavy N.N.W. gale, and brought safely ashore from the schooner Anna Louisa, of Rye, the crew of 8 men of the schooner Amelia, of Torquay,...