LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Vessel (1)
MARCH 20TH. - KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL.
Information was received through the military and the police at noon that a partly submerged boat or raft was drifting towards the rocks at Rosskearagh Point, Sligo. A west-north-west...
The S.S. Empire Tigaven and The S.S. Cormoat
DECEMBER 13TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND FILEY, YORKSHIRE. During a northwesterly gale, with a very rough sea, the S.S.
Empire Tigaven and the S.S. Cormoat came into collision about four miles off Flamborough.
A...
A Fishing Coble
Three rescued RED FLARES sighted off Saltfleet Haven were reported to the honorary secretary of Mablethorpe lifeboat station by Humber Coastguard at 1940 on Sunday August 24, 1980, and, with the assistance of shore helpers, the station's...
St. Clair
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 7.50 in the evening of the 23rd of August, 1949, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler St. Clair, of Grimsby, was ashore. The crew of the life-boat Thomas McCunn assembled, but about three-quarters...
A Sailing Dinghy
CLUNG TO DINGHY Tynemouth, Northumberland. On 5th July, 1964, the life-boat Tynesider was returning from a trip with members of the ladies' life-boat guild aboard when, just off the Northern pier, a capsized sailing dinghy was seen with...
A Rowing Boat (2)
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 12.11 early on the morning of the 29th of July, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a police report that an 18-feet rowing boat with one man aboard had gone fishing from Boddam but had not...
Wells-Next-The-Sea: 0415 Launch the 37' Oakley Reserve Lifeboat Calouste Gulbenkian on Temporary Duty at Wells Was Called Out In the Morning of July 10 After a 9
Wells-next-the-Sea: 0415 launch. The 37' Oakley reserve lifeboat, Calouste Gulbenkian, on temporary duty at Wells, was called out in the morning of July 10 after a 999 report of a missing swimmer. Together with Wells ILB and a helicopter... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Prosperity
At noon on the 5th February a telephone mes- sage from the Maplin Light-house re- ported that a schooner was on the Barrow Sands flying signals of distress, and asked for the Life-boat to be sent at once. The crew were at once assembled and...
Emile
Shortly after 2 P.M. on the 15th May information was received that one of the fishing- boats, which had gone drifting for mackerel the previous night at 6.30 P.M., was missing. A strong N.E. gale had been blowing all night, and the Coast-...
A Boat
10th August.
Two fishermen reported that they had picked up another fisherman's boat.
The life-boat went out to look for him and found his lobster pots, but no trace of the man.—Rewards, £4 10s....