LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Endeavour and Eliza Bell
ABEBSOCH, NORTH WALES.—The Mabel Louisa Life-boat was launched, at 2.30 A.M.
on the 29th of April, with much difficulty, the night being very dark, the tide far out, and a very heavy sea breaking on the shore. She proceeded...
Emma Ives
The Duke of Northumberland Steam Life-boat was also called out on the night of the 9th November by a telephone message from the Chief Officer of H.M.
Coastguard at Waterloo, stating that a vessel was making signals of...
Spaarnestroom and S.S. Waldemar Sieg (1)
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 10.48 on the night of the 20th of March, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Spaarnestroom, of Amsterdam, which had been in colli- sion with the S.S....
A Dinghy
Capsized dinghy TWO MEN visiting Tenby by yacht on Sunday September 28, 1980, were returning by dinghy from shore to their yacht in the late evening when their dinghy capsized. One man managed to cling to a rock but the other, who could not...
August
Launches 22. Lives rescued 18.
AUGUST 5TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 4.15 A.M. the naval officer in command at Appledore said that the life-boat was wanted four miles W.N.W. from Hartland Point, and the...
Category: Services
None (1)
Washed off rocks VALENTIA COAST RADIO STATION made a general broadcast at 1119 on Thursday August 26, 1982, requesting assistance for an angler who had been washed off rocks at 1000 close by Culoo Head, westward along the north coast of...
Flower o' Mary
On the evening of the 19th November the steam drifter Flower o' May, of Banff, made to enter the harbour. She was returning from the English fishing grounds, and, being short of coal, had been towed about fifty miles before being cast...
Grace Stuart
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 3.15 in the afternoon, on the 19th of January, 1951, the coxswain saw the local motor fishing boat Grace Stuart approaching the har- bour. There was a heavy sea across the bar with a north-westerly breeze, and...
Work/lifesaving balance
The sound of clicking keyboards and ringing phones at RNLI Headquarters is pierced with a long, shrill bleep. It’s a pager alert. Chris Speers, the RNLI’s E-Design Officer, jumps up, gives a nod that means ‘not sure when I’ll be back’, and...
Category: Articles
Maria
The schooner Maria, of Fowey, whilst bound from Charlestown to Ghent, with a cargo of china clay, attempted to put into New- haven Harbour on the 12th February.
A strong southerly gale was blowing with a heavy sea, and the...