LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Schooner (1)
DE C . 1 S T. - MARGATE, KENT. A schooner had been sunk by enemy action four miles away and the life-boat found only the masthead of the vessel and no sign of the crew. It was learned later that the crew had been rescued by another vessel.-...
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SEPTEMBER 2ND. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
Red flares had been seen, but nothing could be found, and it was later reported that an RAF. rescue boat had picked up four airmen. - Rewards, £22 14s. 3d. (See Skegness, “Accounts of...
Oil Rig Orion Went Aground on the North West Shore of Guernsey on February I on Friday February 10 It Was Thought She Was Adrift: In Fact She Had Parted from Her B
Oil rig Orion went aground on the north west shore of Guernsey on February I .
On Friday February 10 it was thought she was adrift: in fact, she had parted from her barge, which had sunk, but was still held aground by her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Drilling Rig
Invergordon lifeboat in drilling rig rescueThe White Rose of Yorkshire, Invergordon's Waveney class lifeboat, was involved in the rescue of two survivors who fell from a semi-submersible exploration drilling rig on 31 January 1992 in...
The Celeste
At daybreak on the 4th April, during a strong gale from the E., with a chopping sea, a large steamer was observed, apparently at anchor, about eight miles N. of To wan Head. She was showing colours, but whether signals of distress or not...
Lost at sea
4 September: Hunstanton After receiving reports of a narrow boat in difficulty, the volunteer crew of Hunstanton lifeboat were called to investigate. They found onboard a lone sailor and two dogs. When they...
Category: Articles
Sirenia (1)
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE AND BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a cargo of wheat, stranded on Atherfield Ledge during a thick fog. The Life-boat...
The "Mary Bridge" Shortly After Her Crew Had Been Taken Off
The "Mary Bridge" Shortly After Her Crew Had Been Taken Off. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hoylake Lifeboat Mary Gabriel Is Pushed on Her Carriage Before a Launch
Hoylake Lifeboat Mary Gabriel Is Pushed On Her Carriage Before A Launch. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Loyang
MOTOR YACHT'S ENGINES FAILED Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 8.25 in the evening of the 6th of July, 1947, the Kingston-on-Sea coastguard tele- phoned information, received by the Worthing police from a resident, that he had seen a motor...