LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tregenna Castle
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 9.45 on the night of the 15th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that a skiff with one man aboard was adrift in the bay with no oars. The life-boat Edgar George Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 10.10 in a...
Heron (1)
GREEK AND DANISH STEAMERS IN COLLISION Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—On the morning of the 28th of June, 1947, the steamer Heron, of Piraeus, was in collision with the Danish steamer Stal, of Copenhagen, and sank fourteen miles east-south...
A Speed Boat
RESCUED FROM SPEEDBOAT Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 7.15 p.m.
on i6th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small and overloaded speedboat was in difficulties about three-quarters of a mile east by...
A Yacht
Deep water 'rocks' sink yacht Donaghadee Ireland Division Donaghadee's Arun class lifeboat City of Belfast was called to an unusual incident on 2 July 1988 when a Mayday call was heard from a sinking yacht at...
Andrada
BARMOUTH.—A large vessel was seen stranded on St. Patrick's Causeway on the morning of the 24th March, 1895. A heavy gale was blowing from S.W., the weather was thick and the sea rough. The Lifeboat Jones Ctibb put off at 8.15, and on...
Anemons
On the 6th January the French schooner Anemone was embayed off this station. It was blow- ing a hurricane from the S.W., and very squally at the time. The vessel had lost her mizen mast, and all her canvas was in shreds. While endeavouring...
Rafts
Rescued, landed and towed in...
Hayling Island lifeboat crew had their work cut out for them at an incident last year when, what started out as an annual goodwill visit, turned into a full scale clean up operation! On 31...
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A Canoe (1)
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight- At 11.10 a.m. on 2nd April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a canoe had capsized near ScratchelPs Bay.
The two crew members, who were clinging to the canoe, were being...
Whitby Lass and Foxglove
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.16 on the morning of the 15th of January, 1954,the coastguard telephoned that a fish- ing boat appeared to be in difficulties one mile north-west of the harbour.
At 11.25 the No. 1 life-boat Mary...