LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Six Crab Boats
LOOE, CORNWALL. — Six crab boats brought up off the harbour on the 13thFebruary /waiting until there was sufficient water to enable them to cross the bar The wind increased to a gale from S.E., the sea became heavy, there were heavy falls of...
Prinz Wihelm
The steamer Prinz Wilhelm, of Hamburg, whilst bound in ballast from Hamburg to the Tyne, stranded about two miles to the north of Seaham on the 26th October.
A dense fog prevailed at the time and a strong sea was running....
Coulin
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 11.30 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1960, the motor launch Coulin left Ballycotton for Dunmore East, in spite of worsen- ing weather. The coxswain gave advice on the best course to take to clear the broken...
A Fishing Boat
Margate, Kent. —At 12.17 in the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing vessel had broken down and was drifting three and. a half miles north- north-east of the pier. A strong north- north-west...
Lifeboat Services (From Page 118)
Fox. Vellum service certificates have been presented to Crew Members Christopher E. Fox and David Wainwright.
Western Division On the bar THE SERVICE BY FWLLHELi lifeboat and Criccieth ILB to the yacht Zircon during the...
Category: Services
Wimborne and District Riding Club
Over 100 horses and riders took part in a sponsored ride organised by the Wimborne and District Riding Club. The ride was over a 15-mile course starting from the ancient monument of Badbury Rings. Each rider to complete the course was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
S.S. Giacomo Matteotti
Walmer, Kent. — At 10.55 in the morning of the 26th of January, 1949, the Deal coastguard reported a message from the South Goodwin Lightvessel that a ship was aground about one and a quarter miles north-east of her, and the motor life-boat...
Virginia
FISHING BOAT MISSING FOR FOUR DAYS Skegness, Lincolnshire.—The fishing- smack Virginia, of Boston, Lincoln- shire, with a crew of three, which had gone to sea on January 1st, 1947, had not returned. Aeroplanes searched for her and radar was...
Gallant Women
Three women have been thanked by the Institution for their gallantry. One was the purser of the training ship "Moyana", in Southampton Water, who was awarded a vellum. Six cadets had left the ship in a dinghy in a rough...
Category: Articles
Viking and Loch Maree
Minehead, Somerset. — During the evening of the 9th August, 1939, a message was received from the Hurlestone Point coastguard that the motor yacht Viking was on fire six miles north of Porlock Weir and that the motor yacht Loch Maree, of...