LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Isabella
WICK.—The fishing-lugger Isabella, of Wick, while attempting to put to sea on the 26th February, the water being still rough after a S.W. gale, was struck by heavy sea and was driven up the river.
Both her anchors were...
Taking Shipwrecked Persons from a Wreck, and Their Stowage In a Life-Boat
As the running before a heavy broken sea is the most dangerous operation which a life-boat has to perform, and its safe execu- tion may often depend, not only on the skilful management of the oars or sails and steerage, but also on the...
Category: Articles
Orion
On the 15th February, at 6 P.M., the No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, proceeded to the barque Orion, which had stranded on the south side of the North Scroby Sand.
A fresh S. by E. breeze was blowing at the time, the weather...
Phrontis
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1954, the police reported that a member of the crew of the local steam trawler Phrontis. which had left for a fishing trip, was ill and that she was returning to Fleetwood....
Andromeda
The schooner Andromeda, of Riga, bound from London to Bo'ness, with a cargo of scrap iron, stranded in the vicinity of Thorntonloch, on the 6th January. The Life-boat, Sarah Kay and the rocket apparatus were quickly on the scene of the...
Cakbornne, of Mylor
AUGUST 30TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
About 9.15 at night the coastguard reported flares a mile east of St.
Anthony. A moderate south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. The motor life-boat...
Poole Headquarters July 25 1986:
Poole headquarters, July 25, 1986: When Stephen Willoughby died tragically young, his family decided they would buy a lifeboat in his memory. The relief 16ft D class lifeboat Stephen Willoughby was therefore officially handed over and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hermiston
The steamer Hermiston, of Glasgow, whilst bound from Antwerp to Shields in ballast, stranded on the north cheek of Robin Hood's Bay on the 19th May.
There was a dense fog at the time, with a light breeze and moderate...
Caragh
Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 11.55 on the night of the 3rd July, 1961, the honorary secretary, while listening to his radio on the trawler wave band,heard a distress call from the yacht Caragh, stating that she was dragging her anchors over the...
Calypso, of Wallasey, St. Trillo (1)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire; Rhyl, Flintshire; Beaumaris and Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4 p.m. on 6th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the Llandudno honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile west of Great Ormes Head...