LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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TYRELLA, DUNDBUM: BAT.—Signals of distress having been shown by a vessel which was close to the Long Rocks, during a moderate gale from the S., thick weather, and a rough sea, on the morning of the 1st December, the Life-boat Louisa Burnaby...
Peveril
MARCH 5TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.
During the afternoon the life-boat crew assembled as the fishing fleet was overdue, but their services were not needed until 7.15 in the evening. A strong north-north-west gale was then...
Ferry Saint Malo
Two lifeboats on service as high speed passenger ferry runs on to rocksBoth of Jersey's lifeboats, St Heller's Tyne class Alexander Coutanche and St Catherine's Atlantic rigid inflatable Jessie Eliza, were involved in a service...
Galilee, Progress,Endeavour, Noel II, Provider and Venus
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Several fishing boats went to sea early on the morning of the 28th May. The weather got bad and some of them came in. By 8 A.M.
a heavy sea was rolling in and breaking at the harbour entrance, and a...
Master and commander
An RNLI coxswain must be brave but what else does it take to inspire the confidence and trust of a modern-day crew?
On 9 July 2010, Mike Lawrence was not only in charge of Calshot’s Tyne class Alexander Coutanche but also...
Category: Articles
A Racing Skiff
Torbay, Devon - At 10.28 a.m on 9th April, 1967, it was reported that four youths were rowing from Teignmouth to Dartmouth in a 16-foot racing skiff. Their escort boat had gone aground and the youths had continued without it. As the sea was...
Gladys
At 12.15 P.M.
on the 4th August the smack Gladys, of Lowestoft, was observed on the Bar- ber Sands, and the No. 2 Life-boat, Nancy Lucy was launched to assist her.
The wind was blowing strongly from the...
Aires
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in diffi- culties about three miles off Penmaen- mawr. The life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella...
De Ruyter
JANUARY 10TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 2.8 A.M. the coastguard reported a ship ashore in Cymeran Bay, near Rhosneigr.
A N.E. breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea. It was bitterly cold. The motor life-boat...
A Steam Trawler Lolist
At 5.12 P.M. on the 14th May the coast- guard at Seaton Sluice telephoned that a steam trawler was flying " not under control " signals about five miles east of the station. A strong N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea, and the...