LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Port du Hurel
n complete contrast Alexander Coutanch was called out in a flat calm to another fishing vessel, Port du Hurel, when she struck rocks three miles SSE of the station on 17 July 1990.
Despite visibility officially descibed as...
Hannah's paddle mission
Transatlantic sailor Hannah White paddled up a wave of RNLI support in September during a record-breaking 205-mile solo kayak challenge.
Hannah, who is also an adventurer and broadcaster, became the first person to paddle...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.—On the 27th March, the smack Howard, of Grimsby, went ashore near the outer buoy, off Scarborough.
On the accident being seen from the shore, the Scarborough life-boat was immediately launched, and...
Category: Services
Harriet and Venus
At about 7.35 P.M. on the 28th No- vember, signals from the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships were seen, and the Life-boat and steam-tug proceeded through the Cudd Channel to the North Sand Head. They saw a flare from a vessel on the sand,...
Victor
POOLS, DORSET.—On the 9th January, at about 2.30 P.M., during a heavy gale from the B.S.E. and a high sea, signals being heard from the sandbanks, the Soys' Own, No. 2, Life-boat was launched, and towed by a steamer to the mouth of the...
Dayspring
DUNCANNON, WATEHFORD HARBOUR.— On the 3rd March, at about 1.15 P.M., a vessel was seen to be striking heavily on the Bar. The Life-boat Richard and Ann Warner was got out, but owing to the state of the tide, and to the wind being in a S.S.E....
Bridget, of Dungarvan
DUNGARVAN.—At 3 P.M. on the 2nd August, the Life-boat Christopher Ludlow was launched from this station, and, after an hour and a half of hard rowing, the crew succeeded in boarding the brigantine Bridget, of Dungarvan, which vessel while on...
Pulper
At 1.15 P.M. on the 25th May the Chief Officer of Coastguard reported that a vessel was showing distress signals off Clogher Head. The crew of the Lifeboat Charles Whitton were assembled and the boat was promptly launched. She pro- ceeded...
Margaret and Jane and Presilla
The No. 2 Life-boat, John Fielden, was launched at 8 A.M. on the 22nd January, in an E.S.E. gale and heavy sea, to the as- sistance of the fishing-boats Margaret and Jane and Priscilla, of Filey, and rescued the crews of eight men. The boats...
Robin and Mary
During a very light N.N.W. breeze, on the 10th February, the coble Robert and Mary, belonging to Whitby, came from Runs- wick to work her crab-pots at the back of Whitby rock. There was a heavy sea on the Bar and a very strong outset; the...