LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Chili
Rockets and guns were fired by the Would Light-vessel on the 3rd February.
A moderate breeze was blowing at the time from E. by S., there was a heavy sea and the weather was thick, with rain and sleet, and very cold. At...
Ballot Box By Life-Boat
AFTER the general election in February, the ballot box from the island of Colonsay, off the west coast of Scotland, was brought to the mainland by the Islay life-boat. The cost was paid by the returning officer..
Category: Services
Lindfar
Trawler sinking LATE ON THE NIGHT of Thursday June 6, 1985, the 53ft Dutch trawler Lindfar radioed Thames coastguard to say that she was aground, holed and taking water on the northern Gunfleet Sands.
The honorary secretary...
Shielia
JULY 9TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 8.35 in the morning the Arklow smack St. Gerrade put into Rosslare Harbour and reported that a yacht was sinking on the North Dogger Bank, Wexford Bar. The skipper had tried, but without success,...
An Aeroplane (10)
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—18th September, 1939. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by the coastguard as her services were not needed.— Rewards, £12 5s..
A Boat (1)
Margate, Kent. At 12.43 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties off Birchington and that one of her crew was waving an oar to attract...
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Category: Advertisement
Gurth
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT THE HUMBER FEBRUARY 12TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. During the evening there was bitter winter weather on the Humber. A strong north-north-east wind was blowing on shore, with squalls at gale force. Snow was falling...
None (5)
Brighton and Shoreham Harbour: Early in the evening of September 15, 1983, when a force 8 gale, gusting to strong gale, force 9, was blowing from the south west and the sea was very rough, a swimmer was reported in difficulties between...
A Rowing Boat
RABBIT-CATCHERS MAROONED Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Shortly after seven in the evening of the 22nd of December, 1947, information was received from Melness, Sutherlandshire, thirty-five miles to the eastwards, that two men were marooned on the...