LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gannett
About 7.30 P.M. on the 23rd January, signals of distress were seen on the yawl Gannett, of AVexford, which had run aground the previous day, and the Life-boat James Stevens No. 15 was sent out in response. As the tide was nearly low, she was...
TRAWLER TROUBLE
TYNEMOUTH | 30 MARCH
The skipper of a 28-tonne trawler radioed for help when its propeller fouled in fishing gear, leaving the three-man crew adrift 12 miles off Whitley Bay. Tynemouth’s Severn crew towed them to safety, arriving...
Category: Articles
Worthing's Mayor, Trying Out the Town's Inshore Rescue Boat, Hauls Aboard Mr. A. Gamble, Local Branch Secretary
Worthing's Mayor Trying Out The Town's Inshore Rescue Boat Hauls Aboard Mr A Gamble Local Branch Secretary. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Canoe (1)
MAY 13TH. - GALWAY BAY, AND FENIT, CO. KERRY. Three men, who had left Kilronan in a canoe, had been reported missing, but they reached land in County Clare.
- Rewards : Galway Bay, £13 16s. ; Fenit, £13...
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Search for divers THE SUPPORT BOAT of a party of divers contacted the coastguard at 1355 on the afternoon of Sunday September 15, 1985, to say that two of their divers had not surfaced from their diving on the wreck of ss Teddington, about...
A Gallant Service By Five Shetland Fishermen
AT the end of November, 1920, the American three-masted sailing ship Marion Chilcott sailed from Denmark for St. Thomas, West Indies. When she was a few days out she met with very thick weather and strong south-easterly gales. She was driven...
Category: Services
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On the night of the 28th April the coastguard tele- phoned that two men had been ma- rooned at the foot of the cliffs at Capel Llockwyd, near South Stack. One of them had been rescued by lines from the top of the cliffs, but the other...
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Barra Island, Hebrides. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 30th of May, 1958, a local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a patient to hospital in South Uist. The patient, who had a haemorrhage, was given a blood...
Reussite
At 3.45 P.M. on j the 15th January information was j received that a schooner was ashore on the West Tongue Sands requiring assistance. The No. I Life-boat Eliza Harriet was launched, and on arriving at the Sands, found the schooner Beussite...
Islander
The Wreck of the "Islander." A TRAGIC disaster occurred on the coast of Cornwall during a severe gale which struck the coast towards the end of August, when the cutter Islander, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, was driven ashore in...