LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 1.10 P.M. on the 21st May, as a telephone message had been received from Withernsea coastguard that the motor boat Withernsea Monster had broken down and was drifting, five miles east...

Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—28th February.

At 11.19 A.M. the coastguard reported that the s.s. Miguel, of Bilbao, was in difficulties with her steeringchain broken, about twelve miles E.N.E. of West Hartlepool. A...

Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...

PALLING, NORFOLK.—At 10 A.M. on the 3rd April, during a strong wind from the E. and a .heavy sea, a brig was seen stranded at Waxham, and showing signals of distress. The Palling No. 1 Life-boat was promptly launched and went to the aid of...

TEN LANDED Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 9.10 on the night of the 7th of January, 1948, the coastguard reported that a small vessel off Salt Island had signalled SOS with a torch, and the motor life- boat A.E.D. was launched at 9.37. A...

Howth, Co. Dublin—At 12.45 in the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1948, a yacht reported that a small boat was drifting off Ireland's Eye, and at 1.4 the motor life-boat R.P.L. was launched in a fresh westerly breeze with a moder- ate...

Walmer, Kent. — At 6.43 in the morning of the 31st of August, 1949, the Deal coastguard reported a mes- sage from the South Goodwin Light- vessel that a yacht was drifting over the Goodwin Sands to the north- east of the lightvessel and was...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.45 in the morning of the 2nd of April, 1952, the life-boat head launcher reported that the seas were very heavy on the harbour bar, making the conditions bad for returning fishing cobles. Four cobles were at...