LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Motor Boat (2)
SEPTEMBER 24TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
At 12.25 in the morning the Portrush coastguard telephoned that the Ballycastle coastguard had reported a small boat in difficulties between Ballycastle and Fair...
Lion, of Goole
BROADSTAIRS.—At 5 P.M., 12th March, the schooner Lion, of Goole, bound from Hull to the Isle of Wight, was observed driving before a heavy gale at north, with signals of distress flying. The signal guns of the station having failed to...
Lenore
— The brigantine Lenore, of Eaversham, carrying a crew of six hands, whilst bound to London on the 5th April, got into difficulties near the mouth of Harwich Harbour, owing to a strong easterly gale. Shortly before 5 P.M. she displayed...
Widow of a Bowman
THE bowman of the Walmer life-boat, James Rich, collapsed and died in the life-boat when she went out, on the 24th of December 1950, to the help of the Italian motor vessel Santagata, and rescued her crew of thirty-two. An account of the...
Category: Obituaries
British Triumph
FEBRUARY 13TH . - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 12.40 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a ship’s boat was drifting five to six miles off Cromer. A northeast wind was blowing, with a moderate...
Dido
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 3.15 on the morning of the 22nd of August, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Dido, of Portreath, which had put out from Portreath the even- ing before with a crew of three, had not returned...
Ruth
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 6.10 on the evening of the 13th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message that a man and his young son had not returned to Paddy's Hole as expected from a fishing trip. At 6.48 the life-boat...
A Fishing Boat and a Steamer
Torbay (Devon).
Between the 5th and the 7th December, with a strong gale blowing the whole time and a very heavy sea, the Torbay Motor Life-boat was out on service four times. She was out _for two hours on the 5th, rescuing...
A Fishing Boat
At 1.45 P.M. on the 1st January a signal of distress was shown by two men in a fishing-boat two miles off from land in Llandudno Bay. The men, father and son, had gone out to their fishing lines and were overtaken by a sudden rising of the...
Fishing Boats (3)
GOURDON.—Early on the morning of the 16th February fifty fishing - boats proceeded to sea, but in the forenoon the wind increased considerably, the sea became heavy and about twenty of the boats, which had not then returned to port, were in...