LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Aith, Shetlands. At 10.20 a.m. on 1st December, 1965, at the request of the local medical officer of health, the lifeboat John and Frances Macfarlane was launched in a moderate north westerly breeze and in a rough sea to take a doctor and a...
Golden Hope
SEVERE At 9 a.m. on loth April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the m.f.v. Golden Hope was at sea and that conditions in the harbour approaches were very severe, with visibility almost nil. The life-boat Mary Ann...
Herbruder
On the following morning the gale had somewhat moderated, after a terrible night; but the sea was still very rough.
At about noon the Dutch galliot Her- Iruder went ashore, and the Life-boat was again promptly manned, and...
White Heather
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 5.40 on the evening of the 15th of October, 1957, the Saltburn coastguard telephoned that the salvage vessel White Heather needed help near the old wreck of the Demetrius off Redcar. At 6.10 the fife-boat City of Leeds...
Squall
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 8.15 on the morning of the 3rd of Septem- ber, 1954, the coxswain noticed that the yacht Squall, of Belfast, which was anchored in the harbour, was dragging towards the pier. At 8.30 the life-boat Douglas...
Vintage Occasion
Vintage occasion The Belton and O'Neill families from Oxted, Surrey have entered the Beaulieu and Weymouth vintage car rally for the last six years. This is put on by the Wimborne branch of the RNLI and organised by the National... - View image in PDF
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Zosteria, of London
On the 20th March, the brig Zosteria, from London to Hartle- pool, in ballast, was observed in distress off this place while it was blowing a strong gale from E.N.E., accompanied by heavy rain. The Parsee life-boat was at once taken along...
Dalkeith, of Stornoway
The Life-boat Charley Lloyd, in answer to a signal of distress shown from the schooner Dalkeith, of Stornoway, went off at 5 A.M. on the 16th Dec. The Dalkeith was anchored in Serab- ster Roads, but the violence of the wind had caused her to...
Swift
LOWESTOFT.—The schooner Swift, of Eye, bound to that port from Seaham with coal, was seen with a flag of distress during a gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea at about 11 A.M. on the 12th December, and the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat thereupon...
Viscount Macduff
The schooner Viscount Macduff, of Macduff, N.B., while entering the harbour of Tynemouth during the night of the 26th December, was struck by a heavy sea, which washed overboard the captain and one of the crew, who were at the wheel at the...