LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
NEWBIGGIN.—Seventeen of the fishingcobles which had gone to sea early in the morning of the 14th February were overtaken by a gale from S. to S.W. and a strong sea and, as their return home was attended by considerable risk, the Lifeboat...
Ganges (1)
DEAL AND RAMSGATE.—On the 14th October, at about 5 P.M., during a very heavy gale of wind, the Gull Lightship fired signals of distress, in response to which the Deal Life-boat Mary Somerville proceeded to the Goodwin Sands. The Ramsgate...
Lamorna
Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 11.25 in the morning of the 4th of November, 1951, the Niton Radio Station reported a wire- less message from a steamer that a schooner was in distress sixteen and a half miles...
Fishing Boats (1)
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — At about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 3rd February, the fishing-boats went out and shot their lines. At 10.30 a strong gale from the N. sprung up, rendering it difficult for the boats to haul in their...
Talacre
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Talacre, of Beaumaris, bound from Conway forLarne with a cargo of slates, the Lifeboat John Monk put off at 8.15 A.M., in a strong W. breeze and a heavy sea, on the...
Spotters Guide
The distinctive colours of orange and blue flash past you as the lifeboat launches on another service - you recognise that she is an RNLI vessel, but what type? The Lifeboat brings you the definitive guide to all operational RNLI lifeboat...
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Lynburn
Aberdeen.—The local steam trawler Lynburn, which had previously broken adrift, had gone ashore in the Naviga- tion Channel at Aberdeen. In the early hours of the morning of the 26th of September, 1950, tugs were trying to refloat her; and at...
Snapper
JAN. 22ND. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. At about noon in- formation was received through the coastguard that the motor launch Snapper, which was bound from Hamworthy to Southampton, was in difficulties off Boscombe Pier. A...
Nostalgia Direct (DEPT. LB1)
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Marie Emilie Andrea
.—At about 3 P.M. on the 26th December a schooner in the Caldy Roads, which had been slowly dragging her anchors all the morning, got into a very dangerous position, and was seen to make signals of distress. The Life-boat William 'and...