LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TWO LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH FOR YACHT Torbay, Devon. On the 27th September, 1962, an exercise with the Torbay life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent had been arranged for seven o'clock in the evening, but at 6.41 the coastguard informed the...

ON SUNDAY MORNING, November 18, the 50ft Thames lifeboat stationed at Islay and the 52ft Barnett lifeboat stationed at Barra Island were capsized while going to the help of a 299 ton Danish coaster whose cargo of marble chips had shifted.<...

ALDEBURGH and HARWICH.—In response to a message received by telephone, the Life-boat Aldeburgh was launched at 5.30 A.M. in a whole gale from N.E. and a terrific sea, with very heavy rain and snow squalls, and saved the crew of three men...

Bridlington, Yorkshire. — At about 1.40 P.M. on the 23rd December, 1938, a motor fishing vessel was seen making heavy weather south of Bridlington.

A strong, squally, east breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The vessel...

Boulmer, Northumberland.—During the morning of the 27th June, 1938, eight motor fishing cobles from Boulmer and Alnmouth were caught at sea by bad weather. All the life-boat's officers were at sea, and the Clarissa Langdon .

— On the morning of the 8th April the steamer Suzon, of Antwerp, ran ashore at Breaksea Point. She was bound from France to Newport with a cargo of pitwood and carried a crew of twenty- four. She was seen by the watchman at Breaksea, and the...

Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork.—At 10^50 in the morning of the 3rd of June, 1948, information was received that a man.

who had left harbour alone in the early hours to line-fish, had not returned.

He was seventy...

Youghal, Co. Cork.—At 6 o'clock in the evening of the 19th of July, 1948, information was received that a sailing dinghy from Cork had capsized in the bay between Red Buoy and Capel Island, and at 6.15 the motor life-boat Laurana Sarah...