LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Foam, of Dun Laoghaire
AUGUST 12TH. - WICKLOW. About 6.45 in the morning, when the life-boat crew were standing by half an hour after bringing in the yacht Sea Gull, another yacht, the Foam, of Dun Laoghaire, was seen apparently in difficulties in the outer...
Ocean Queen
BROADSTAIRS.—On the 2nd March, in reply to signal guns from the Gull Lightship the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat proceeded to the Goodwin Sands and found the three-masted schooner Ocean Queen, of Plymouth, ashore on the...
A Steamer (3)
JANUARY 26TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. A steamer had been reported ashore on Tiree, but the wind was at hurricane force and compelled the life-boat to heave to, and later she returned to Tobermory, as the weather was getting worse. The life...
St Leonard
On the evening of the 24th June the coxswain was informed that a motor cruiser was in difficulties with her engine broken down, about sixteen miles south of Brid- lington. Some time later the Withern- sea coastguard telephoned that the...
Angling Dinghies
Whitstable's Atlantic capsizes on service to f[shing^)gats The dangers facing lifeboat crews were cgraphically illustrated at Whitstable on Sunday 3 January 1999 when the station's Atlantic was capsized by a breaking sea soon after...
A Schooner Elizabeth Davy, of Goole
On the 25th Sept., the schooner Elizabeth Davy, ofGoole, was observed in a dismasted state, running for the shore in tow of the Polperro, diving boat. She had a very narrow escape of striking the rocks east of Looe Island. The life-boat...
Annie Hope
CEMAES, ANGLESEA. — The Life-boat was launched at 11.15 A.M., on the 13th Maroh,a steamer having been seen to run on the Platters Books in Skerries Sound. She ultimately foundered near the Victoria buoy, and her crew of six men haying taken...
Voorwaarts
In response i| to a telephone message at 3.45 P.M. on ! the 17th January, stating that a vessel | was ashore at Sizewell with her crew in the rigging, the No. 1 Life-boat Alfred Gorry was launched. She found the schooner Voorwaarts, of...
A Small Boat
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 2.10 P.M. on the 3rd September the bowman saw a small boat, with two boys onboard, capsize about five hundred yards from the quay. A fresh west breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The life-boat motor mechanic...
Fishing Boats
Whitby, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 17th October, 1961, the local fishing fleet were at sea when a north- north-westerly gale sprang up. The life- boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 11.45 in a very rough sea two hoursafter high...