LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yacht Ilona
The Life-boat William Erie was called in a moderate N.E. wind but thick fog, soon after midnight on the 26—27th January, by a telephone message, which reported a steamer was ashore at St. Alban's Head.
The vessel proved...
Oberscew
NORTH BERWICK.—The schooner Oberscew, from Dychling for Burntisland, laden with esparto grass, stranded on the rocks at Seacliff Point during a strong E.N.E.
breeze, a very rough sea and a thick fog on the 29th March. A...
Castlebrae and Kitty Mackay
JANUARY 18TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An easterly gale was blowing with a heavy sea, and at 2.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that some small fishing boats were still at sea. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of...
Two Boats (1)
Padstow, and St. Ires, Cornwall.—At 7.45 in the evening of the 25th of Sept- ember, 1949, the Trevose Head coast- guard telephoned the Padstow life-boat authorities that a rowing boat with a crew of four was trying to get ashore in...
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Isolda
Dur- ing a moderate to strong gale on the 14th March a three-masted schooner was observed at anchor on the south side of the Greengrounds, dragging her anchors. As she was in a position of danger, and had hoisted a two flag signal, the...
Winifred, Amelia, Friendship and Lionel
Several of the fishing cobles were overtaken by a strong N.E. gale and rough sea on the 16th March when out attending to their crab pots. As it was seen that the cobles were in danger a steam trawler, which was in the Roads, pro- ceeded to...
H.M.S Niger
A few minutes after mid-day on the llth November Coxswain William Adams, of the North Deal Life-boat, was called out, and it was reported to him that a man-of-war had been blown up. He at once hurried to the beach and saw that a cruiser was...
Top Far Left: the First RNLI-Built Waveney John F Kennedy
Top far left: The first RNLI-built Waveney John F Kennedy, based at Dun Laoghaire.. - View image in PDF
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Enchanter
RAMSGATE, BROADSTAIRS, WALMER, and KINGSDOWNE.—These Life-boats, which are so frequently called out to assist the crews of vessels wrecked on the* fatal Goodwin Sands, were instrumental last year in performing the following services to...