LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Welsh Prince
On the 17th October the steam trawler Welsh Prince, of and for North Shields, laden with fish, stranded on the rocks known as Limpet Hills, in foggy weather.
The wind was blowing from the S.E. and there was a heavy surf on...
Scamper
At 9.51 a.m. on I2th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Scamper, which was moored in breakers off Camaes bay, had asked for assistance. The life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland, which was on...
North Wales
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the evening of Sunday, 16th January, a letter was re-ceived by a messenger from Palling, stating that two ships were on the Hasborough Sand. A steam-tug was obtained from Great Yarmouth, and the Caister No. 2 Life-boat,...
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Valerie
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 7.29 p.m. on 2ist September, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen in a position three miles southwest of Shoreham. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at 7.38 in calm...
A Model Probably Contemporary
A model, probably contemporary, of the lifeboat built by Thomas Costain which went on station at Formby in 1841. It can be seen in the National Maritime Museum. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of National Maritime Museum. - View image in PDF
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Fame
APPLEDORE.—On the 2nd March a message by telephone was received stating that a, vessel was stranded on Baggy Leap. A moderate breeze was then blowing from N.N.E., the sea was smooth and the weather fine and cold.
At about...
A Rubber Dinghy
FEBRUARY 13TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON.
At 12.29 in the afternoon the coastguard reported smoke at sea and what appeared to be a man in a rubber dinghy. A westerly wind was blowing, with a bad ground swell. The motor life-boat...
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Barra Island, Inverness-shire. At 8.30 on the evening of the 25th of October, 1957, a local doctor asked if the life-boat would convey a patient, who was dangerously ill, to Lochbois- dale for hospital treatment. At 9.15 the...
Dunnikier
A tele- phone message from the Gunfleet Light- house at 8.31 A.M. on the 15th February reported that a vessel was on the Gunfleet Sands. The Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 promptly proceeded to the place indicated and found the steam ketch...