LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Braunschweig
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 4 a.m. on 22nd January, 1966, the harbour master received a radio telephone call from the German trawler Braunschweig asking for medical assistance for a member of the crew who had been injured and was bleeding...
Saltee
WEXFORD.—During a gale from the N.E., with sleet showers and a rough sea, on the 16th March, signals of distress were shown by the barque Saltee, of and for "Wexford, laden with wooden goods, which had stranded on the south side of the...
Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire. — In the early hours of the 2nd of November, 1956, the motor fishing vessel Lend Us, of Whitby, put out to go to the fishing grounds. By midday the weather had deteriorated, and as the fishing boat was due to return to...
Stora Korsnas Link I
18 saved from burning vessel on lee shore Whitby's Tyne class lifeboat City of Sheffield launched to the aid of large Swedish motor vessel Stora Korsnas Link I on fire with 18 aboard in a northerly Gale on 5 November...
Cwm Avon
GREENCASTLE, LONDONDERRY.—Signals of distress having been shown by a vessel on the TODS Bank, while the wind was blowing half a gale from the S.S.W., with a heavy sea, the Life-boat temporarily placed here while the Mary Beckwith was being...
Forward
Holyhead. Anglesey,—At 12.35 in the afternoon, on the 4th of July, 1950, the coastguard reported that red rockets were being fired by a fishing vessel off Rhoscolyn. A light easterly breeze was blowing and the sea was...
Prince Ivanhoe (2)
Prince Ivanhoe THE PLEASURE STEAMER Prince Ivanhoe with a crew of 18 and 450 passengers was on a cruise from Minehead to the Welsh Coast on Monday August 3, 1981, when, at 1536. she struck anunderwater obstruction off Port...
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New Life-Boats
Two new self-righting steel life-boats, each nearly 50 ft. in length and capable of carrying up to 100 survivors, 28 of them under cover, have been allocated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to stations in...
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A Canoe
FOUND EMPTY CANOE At 2.4 a.m. on 2oth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a i y-year-old boy was missing in the Firth of Forth, and that he was last seen in his canoe the previous morning.
The...