LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
July (1)
CRICCIETH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At about 11.30 in the morning of the 26th March, 1941, a Wellington bomber crashed into the sea, between Criccieth Castle and Harlech. The weather was foggy, with a heavy swell. Two rowing boats, each manned by...
Category: Services
Bridlington Memorial Service
ON 10th February, 1871, an unusually severe gale burst upon the North-East coast of England, and at Bridlington there was the terrible spectacle of no fewer than seventeen ships ashore at the same time, rapidly breaking up.
Category: Articles
Y L a News
THERE has been a good world-wide response to the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association which, as announced in the last issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, was launched by Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor, at the International...
Category: Articles
Airy Fairy, Billy Whizz and Broadaxe
Three yachts saved PARTICIPANTS IN THE Isle of Man's round the island race in May found themselves contending with a south-south-westerly gale and very high seas. It was at 2240 on the night of Sunday May 25, 1986, when the honorary...
Some Ways of Raising Money
Mr John Skellorn, of the Gravesend Sailing Club, gives a tip about raising money by paperboat racing.
He writes: 'As far as we know, only Belfleet yacht club and ourselves have organised paperboat racing. It started...
Category: Articles
Vaaren
CRESSWELL.—While a fresh wind was blowing from S.E., accompanied by foggy weather and a heavy sea, on the 13th March, the brig Vaaren, of and from Tvedestrand for Newcastle-on-Tyne, laden with pit-props, stranded at Quarry...
Eva
The motor Life-boat J. McGonnel Hussey was launched shortly after noon on the 9th May, and saved the pilot coble Eva, of Sunderland, and her occupant.
Information was received that the coble was in distress about two and a...
Yacht Coo
— At 8.35 A.M. on the 12th March a telegram was received from Milford - on - Sea, stating that a small vessel was labour- ing heavily in a dismasted condition, and displaying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Robert Fleming were...
John Rees
During a whole N.N.W. gale with terrific squalls signals of distress were seen from a vessel at anchor in Torbay. The crew were summoned at once and the Life- boat Betsey Newbon launched. Owing to the gale blowing right on shore some...
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St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At about 6.15 P.M. on the 12th October, 1938, a doctor, a member of the local life-boat committee, asked for the life-boat to be launched to take to Penzance a young man who was suffering from acute...