LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Magnificat
CATAMARAN DISMASTED Moelfre, Anglesey. At 1.25 p.m. on 26th June, 1965, the coxswain sighted a catamaran being dismasted two miles east of Moelfre Island. The coastguard confirmed that the catamaran Magnificat was in difficulties and the...
Aldebaran
RAMSGATE.—Signal guns from the Gull and Goodwin Lightships were heard at 10.30 A.M. on the 3rd May, and a schooner was seen to run ashore on the North Sand Head. The wind at the time was blowing from the N. The Life-boat Bradford and harbour...
Maid of Linney
MOTOR BOAT'S CREW BURN RAGS AS SIGNALS Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 10.15 on the night of the 5th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was drifting in Freshwater West Bay and was flashing a torch....
The Motor Cruisers Sea Gull and Bill
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.12 on the evening of the 20th of August, 1951, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a motor cruiser was aground on the Burbo Bank near R.4 Buoy in the Rock Channel. Two men had walked ashore from her leaving...
The Trinity House Vessel Reculver (1)
OCTOBER 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. About 12.30 P.M. a very loud explosion was heard. It came from the Trinity House vessel Reculver. She had struck a mine. An easterly breeze was blowing. The sea was smooth. The motor life-boat City of...
None (1)
Man in the Run HEARING FROM the Coastguard, at 1546 on November 9, 1974, that a 999 call had reported that a man had fallen into the Run at Mudeford, both Michael Parker and his wife Sally, the station administrative officer, ran out of...
(Below) Port Isaac's New D Class Ilb Was Dedicated on Easter Sunday By the Vicar of Port Isaac the Reverend F J W Maddock She Was the Gift of Cornwall and Is
(Below) Port Isaac's new D Class ILB was dedicated on Easter Sunday by the Vicar of Port Isaac, The Reverend F. J. W. Maddock. She was the gift of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Round Tables and was presented by their area chairman. John... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Leesum
On the 26th December the Life-boat Queensbury was instructed to put to sea with all haste as a steamer named the Leersum, of Amsterdam, carrying a crew of nineteen hands, had struck a mine and foundered four miles S.E. off Scar- borough. The...
Ephrussi (1)
HARWICH AND ALDEBURGH.—Signals having been made by the light-vessels, the Springwell Life-boat stationed at Harwich and the Aldeburgh Life-boat at Aldeburgh were launched at 8 A.M. on the 5th June, and proceeded to the Shipwash Sands where...
Antilla
DOCKERS TAKEN OFF DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL Arklow, Co. Wicklow. On the evening of the 17th January, 1962, the motor vessel Antilla of Groningen, outward bound from Arklow to Rotterdam with a crew often, grounded 150 yards north-east of Arklow...