LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Girl Mina
Stronsay, Orkneys - At 8.25 p.m.
on 4th February, 1967, the motor fishing vessel Girl Mina was reported aground at Elsness Holm, Sanday. The life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman proceeded to the casualty at 8.45 in a strong...
Sailing Dinghies and Tantivy
Two taken off BEAUMARIS ILB STATION deputy launching authority was informed by Penmon Coastguard at 1646 on Saturday, October 23, 1976, that sailing dinghies had capsized in the vicinity of Gallows Point and Garth Point, Menai Strait; the...
A Balcar 105 Helicopter
Skegness: A Balcar 105 helicopter was seen to crash into the sea, five miles east south east of Skegness, on the afternoon of Tuesday July 24, 1984. At 1306 Skegness's 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat launched from the beach manned...
A Small Boat (3)
APRIL 29TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE, AND BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At midnight on the 28th of April information was received that a small boat with one man in it, and only one oar, had been swept out of the harbour by the ebb...
Dispatch
HOLY ISLAND.—On the 21st March, at about 11 P.M., signals of distress were seen just beyond the bar. There was a heavy rolling sea, and the night was very dark. The Life-boat Grace Darling was launched, and went out to the vessel, but great...
H.M. Trawler Clotilde
FEBRUARY 9TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 2.25 P.M. the coastguard reported that H.M. Trawler Clotilde was ashore on the north beach about one hundred yards from the north pier, and ten minutes later the naval authorities...
Osbourne, of Hartlepool
The brig Osborne, of Hartlepool, bound from London to Granton, in ballast, went ashore at Hadstone Scarr during a strong southerly wind, and in a heavy sea, on the 20th November. As soon as the vessel was observed to be in danger the...
A Boat
On the 16th May a sailor-boy, while endeavouring to reach his vessel, in Kedwharf Bay, in a boat from the shore, was driven out to sea by the strong ebb and high wind. The Moelfre life-boat was launched as soon as possible, and, after a long...
Alice
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—The John Turner Turner Life-boat was launched at 3.30 A.M. on the 6th November, and brought ashore the crew, consisting of two men, of the smack Alice, of and from Dinorwic, for Douglas, with slates, which was dragging...
Fishing Boats
PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the morning of the 1st August several of the fishing-boats of this port were placed in danger by a strong breeze from the N.E., and the Life- boat People's Journal, No. 1, put to sea to render assistance. She was...