LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dolphin
WEXFORD, IRELAND.—On the 24th February, at about 6.30 P.M., while a strong breeze from E.N.E. was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea, signals of distress were observed from the fishing lugger Dolphin, of Wexford, which had just struck on...
Strathrye
Lerwick, Shetland*, and Stromness, Orkneys.—llth January. The steam trawler Strathrye, of Aberdeen, with a crew of nine, sent out a wireless message that she was leaking and in danger of sinking at about 10 P.M. on the llth January. The...
Life-Boat on Show In Montevideo
The former Southcnd-on-Sca life-boat which mm forms part of (he I ruguayan life-buat fleet. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Periwinkle
Swanage, Dorset. At 11.15 on the morning of the 8th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was being heavily pounded by a rough sea while at anchor off Hardfast Point. Because of the state of the weather...
Cnosa
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1957, a message was received that there was an injured man on board the Liberian tanker Cnosa about twenty miles south-east of Bishop's Rock Lighthouse. At three o'clock...
Build for life
Today, RNLI lifeboats are designed and built in-house. Soon, we will be fitting them out and doing their maintenance too, as project leader David Price explains ...
The pace of change in our...
Category: Articles
Emlyn
At about 10 P.M. on the 12th November Coxswain Howells observed the steamer Emlyn, of • Cardiff, burning flares for assistance, and he at once assembled the crew of the Motor Life-boat Charterhouse. The boat proceeded to the vessel, which...
Pegasus
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 30th of December, 1956, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that the Dutch vessel Pegasus, of Groningen, was on fire 25 miles south-west of Portland Bill and that her deck cargo was...
Coasteering calamity
19 July: St Davids, Wales A coasteering trip nearly ended in disaster when a 12-year-old girl seriously injured her neck near Porthclais Harbour. The inshore lifeboat crew arrived on scene at noon and gave first...
Category: Articles
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