LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (32)
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - HASTINGS AND EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. At 12.40 in the afternoon information was received from the coastguard and the police that anaeroplane was down in the sea. A fresh W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The aeroplane...
Various Vessels
JANUARY 11TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY, and PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the afternoon information was given by the coastguard to both stations that vessels had been torpedoed or mined six miles west of Rhoscolyn. The Holyhead motor...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS' ROYAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
THE 25th Anniversary Meeting of this Institution wag held at the United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Friday, 3rd June, His Grace the DUKE OF M...
Category: Meetings
A Sailing Dinghy
Swamped A 15FT SAILING DINGHY with three people on board had set off for a day's fishing off Flamborough Head on the morning of Sunday September 21,1986. On their return the dinghy capsized just off Smethwick Sands. The crew succeeded in...
A Sailboard
Windsurfer saved BRONZE MEDAL IN A SOUTHERLY GALE FORCE 8, gUSting tO severe gale force 9, a windsurfer was in trouble in the sea off Croyde. It was 1257 on Sunday December 1, 1985, when Hartland Coastguard alerted Appledore lifeboat station...
Wing
Rescue a dramatic struggle becomesCold, tired and wet, the lone skipper of the yacht Wing had been without sleep for nearly two days when his yacht ran aground on the Long Sands, south of Skegness, on the morning of 5 May 2002. As rough seas...
Life-Boats and Life-Buoys
UNDER the above heading the Board of Trade have issued a Circular, No. 646, July, 1873, which.is to come into action on the 1st January, 1874. It is supple- mentary to the 292nd Section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, which up to the...
Category: Articles
A Pilot Boat
At daylight, on the 20th February, a pilot-boat was observed at anchor under Craig Leith Island, with the sea breaking very heavily all round her, and the wind blowing a gale from N.N.W. with severe frost. The North Berwick life-boat was...
Rebecca and Mary
PORTHDINLLAEN.—At daybreak on the 30th Jan. the schooner Rebecca and Mary, of Carnarvon, was observed riding at anchor in a dangerous position off the Lifeboat Station, with a signal of distress flying. It was blowing a hard gale from N.N.W....
Henry
BURNHAM.—On the 28th November, the daiidy Henry, of Bridgwater, was seen at anchor off the Gore Sands, with a flag of distress flying. The Burnham Life-boat was launched, and on reaching her, it was found that her sails had been blown away,...