LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 268 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
Herga
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 4 P.M. on the 3rd October, 1939, the coastguard reported that a motor yacht, lying about two miles S.W. by S.
of Walton Pier, was flying distress signals. A moderate easterly gale was...
Arka
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 11.44 on the morning of the 30th of August, 1954, the Carnoustie coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing boat Arka, of Gydnia, which had a sick man on board, had run aground one and a half miles...
The Codling Lightvessel
Wicklow.—At 11.42 on the night of the 14th of March, 1955, the Com- missioners of Irish Lights rang up to ask if the life-boat would land a man from the Codling lightvessel, as his wife was dangerously ill at Skerries.
At...
Two Salvage Lighters
NOVEMBER 14TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At 2.50 in the afternoon, the Admiralty salvage officer at Bangor reported, through the coastguard, that two salvage lighters, with crews on board, were drifting ashore in Belfast...
Up Spirits
Weather deteriorated ON THE EVENING of Wednesday, September 8, 1976, the yacht Up Spirits anchored in New Quay Bay. Her owner and one member of the crew remained on board while the other slept ashore.
During the night the...
Luisa
CREW MEMBER INJURED ON BOARD YACHT Plymouth, Devon. At 9.27 on the evening of the 13th March, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed that a small white yacht with two men on board was on the breakwater 200 to 300 yards east of the fort....
The S.S. Asse and an Aeroplane
OCT. 17TH. - AMBLE, AND BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched.
A warning of an air-raid had...
The S.S. Asse and an Aeroplane (1)
OCT. 17TH. - AMBLE, AND BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched.
A warning of an air-raid had...
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MAY 4TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 8.15 in the evening the coastguard reported that a boy had fallen over the cliffs near Berry Head and lay on a ledge of rock close to the water’s edge. At 8.40 the motor life-boat George Shee was launched, taking...