LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Barbadian
On the 6th December intelligence was received at Wexford that a large vessel was stranded on the Blackwater Bank.
The weather was very thick at the time, with a strong wind and heavy sea. The Wexford large life-boat at...
The Central Appeals Committee
THE Central Appeals Committee, whose chairman is Mr. R. N. Crumbie, 126a High Street, Orpington, Kent, continues to develop new fund raising measures on behalf of the R.N.L.I.
The national sponsored swim, arranged by the...
Category: Committee
Vanguard
CAISTER.—The fishing dandy Vanguard, of Great Yarmouth, returning to her port from the fishing grounds during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. and a heavy sea on the 19th September, went on the Barber Sand ; she got off, but afterwards...
Eirion Lass
ABERSOCH, CARNARVONSHIRE. — While the wind was blowing, with the force of a whole gale to a storm, from W.N.W. to N.W., with terrific squalls and a very heavy sea, on the 12th Jan. last, signals of distress were exhibited by the schooner...
A Pleasure Boat
The Life-boat George Woofindin was launched at 2.30 P.M. on the 15th April to the assistance of four men in a pleasure boat off Roker. The men had gone out fishing, but when they at- tempted to return they found that the off-shore wind had...
Hare and Hounds Pub
Roll out the barrel! That is exactly what eight customers of the Hare and Hounds pub at Dore, near Sheffield did.
The eight, working in pairs, pushed a 36-gallon beer barrel filled with water from the pub to Whitby lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Vessel
Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...
Your Letters
Lifeboatmen brought to book.
I am currently researching a book on men whose lives have been closely connected with the coasts of the British Isles. This work will be in a similar vein to my recently published Tales of the...
Category: Correspondence
Delabole
CLOVELLY.—At 5.30 A.M. on the 15th of September, the Life-boat on this station was launched during a heavy le from the N., and rescued the crew, consisting of three men, from the smack Delabole, of Fowey, bound from Par to Swansea with a...
The S.S. Kyle Castle
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 3.45 on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, a telephone message was received from the Forniby coastguard that the S.S. Kyle Castle, of Liverpool, with a crew of twelve, had a heavy list about twenty miles...