LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
What They Achieved
Desperately needed medical relief was brought to 10,000 people in villages marooned by floodwater, thanks to the RNLI's Mozambique rescue mission.
Crews ferried a doctor and logistician from the French medical agency... - View image in PDF
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Oswaldian
SEPT. 25TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
While homeward bound for Grimsby, the steam trawler Oswaldian, laden with Ash and carrying a crew of eleven, ran ashore on the Salt Scar Rocks off Redcar. The weather was hazy with a heavy...
Pass-o-Leny
DEC. 1ST. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.45 A.M. the Lytham secondcoxswain reported a vessel ashore by Peet’s Light, south of the 12th Mile Beacon. A S.W.
gale was blowing, with a heavy...
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 524 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: GILL MACE Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement...
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Finlande
DECEMBER 18TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 7.20 in the evening the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore on the North Head at the harbour entrance. A light south-west wind was blowing, with a ground swell....
H.M.S. Fossbeck
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. A leading seaman on H.M.S. Fossbeck had his skull fractured when a bucket of ashes fell on him, and at six in the morning the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at the station, was launched, with a...
Eliza
On the 18th December last, the brig Eliza, of Montrose, drove from her anchors in Yarmouth roads and went on shore, during a violent gale from E.S.E. and heavy sea. The Gorles-ton seamen's life-boat was immediately launched and succeeded...
Oberon of Liverpool
On the 1st of April the barque Oberon, of Liverpool, ran ashore on the Causeway Bank in Cardigan Bay. She was seen from Portmadoc, and a large boat was also observed at a great distance from the land, apparently full of people. The Portmadoc...
An Aeroplane (7)
FEBRUARY 15TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 10.50 A.M. information was received from the Chapel St. Leonard’s coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea two miles east of the look-out. A light S.W. wind was blowing,...
Two Motor Patrol Boats No. 1091, and No. 1086
AUGUST 23RD. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
About six o’clock in the evening the coastguard reported a small motor vessel aground at the mouth of the River Ugie, two miles north of Peterhead, with a fishing boat standing by....