LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
JANUARY 1 5TH. - ABERDEEN. Four fishing boats had been reported to be overdue, but three of them returned unaided.
No trace of the fourth, with a crew of two, could be found. - Rewards, £10 6s. 3d..
A Motor Boat (1)
15th August. A report that a motor boat had disappeared was followed by a search, but nothing was found, or reported missing.—Rewards, £3 18s..
None (2)
JANUARY 19TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
An SOS call had been reported, but no vessel in distress or wreckage was found. - Rewards, £19 7s. 6d..
Custard Torpedo
Broken mast ABERDOVEY'S ATLANTIC 21 ILB launched at 1515 on Sunday November 12, 1978, after being informed by HM Coastguard that a sailing dinghy had capsized in the estuary; her mast was broken.
It was raining at the...
Brighton and Shoreham Harbour:
Brighton and Shoreham Harbour: Early in the evening of September 15, 1983, when a force 8 gale, gusting to strong gale, force 9, was blowing from the south west and the sea was very rough, a swimmer was reported in difficulties between... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The "George Hounsfield" on Service In 1882
Going out to the schooner Rambler of Folkestone in a whole gale with a very heavy sea. She rescued four of the crew of five who had taken to the rigging. Shortly afterwards the schooner's masts went by the board.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Ship’s Boat
JUNE 13TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
A drifting ship’s boat had been reported eighty-four miles west of Greenhead, Isle of Barra, but nothing was found.
Rewards, £18 14s..
An Open Fishing Boat
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 6.15 on the evening of the 6th of February, 1961, the mechanic told the honorary secre- tary that a seventeen-feet open fishing boat was drifting out to sea. There was a westerly wind of gale force when the...
A Fishing Boat (7)
AUGUST 29TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN
Signals of distress had been reported, but the life-boat found nothing, and later it was learnt that the signals had come from a fishing boat whose engine had failed, but it had started...
Fishing Cobles
On the 30th November, whilst four of the fishing cobles were at sea, the wind increased and the sea became very heavy. When the boats were returning it was seen that they were in imminent danger off Newbiggin Point, and the Life-boat Ada...