LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blunder Woman1 Lilian Crust Prepares for Her Daredevil Stunt
'Blunder woman1 Lilian Crust prepares for her daredevil stunt. Photo Kentish Times Newspaper. - View image in PDF
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A Small Boat (2)
On the 22nd March a small boat left the main- land for Ramsey Island with two men, a pig and a lamb on board. The boat got into difficulties when about half- way across Ramsey Sound, and, drift- ing with the tide, began to bump along the...
A Steamer (15)
DECEMBER 23RD. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Survivors of a steamer which had been mined reported that other survivors were adrift, but they gave the wrong position, so the life-boat found nothing, and another vessel rescued them.-...
Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire On the 13th January the Whitby motor fishing vessel Provider went to Bridlington for repairs to her capstan. Nothing was heard of her all day and, as the sea was making, enquiries were madeat 9.30 P.M. It was learnt that...
Royal Ulsterman
IRISH AND GREEK SHIPS ASHORE IN A BLIZZARD Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 7.20 in the morning of February 26th, 1947, the Southend coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Royal Ulsterman, of Belfast, was aground on Arran. She was on her...
Fishing Boats
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The fishing fleet put out early on the morning of the 6th May. Later on the weather got bad, a thick fog settled and the sea was rising fast. Some of the boats ran for harbour, and the motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith...
A Sailing Dinghy (5)
Walmer, Kent. At about 3.5 p.m.
on 6th June, 1965, life-boatmen at the boat house saw a sailing dinghy capsize some three-quarters of a mile southeast of the station. At 3.5 p.m. the inshore rescue boat launched in a...
Sky Lark and Fisher Lassie
During the night of the 31st July the Coastguard at Knab saw flares being burnt by a vessel in the South entrance. She was evidently drifting seaward. The Life-boat Station was warned, and the Motor Life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was...
Countess of Caithness
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. — At about 2 o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday, 26th March, a signal of distress was shown by the schooner Countess of Caithness', of Gloucester, bound from Limerick to Port William, N.B., with a cargo of bones....
Xepha and Sea Keveral
Yacht swept out to sea AN UNMANNED YACHT, Xephd, had broken adrift in Braye Harbour, Alderney, on the evening of Sunday May 5, 1985, and Coxswain Stephen Shaw of Alderney lifeboat, who is also the deputy harbour master, was aboard the...