LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saving Life from Shipwreck
THE beneficial results of life-boats and the mortar and rocket apparatus in saving life from shipwreck cannot be overrated; and the following account of their services to shipwrecked crews on the coasts of the United Kingdom, during the past...
Category: Articles
Emblem, Times and Delembra
HILBRE ISLAND, CHESHIRE —It having been reported that some of the boats engaged in cockle-fishing were in a dangerous position on the West Hoyle bank on the 2nd May, the Life-boat Admiral Briggs was launched at 4.25 P.M., and in two trips...
Pinta
JULY 23RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
While returning to Hull after a visit to Spurn, the small sailing yacht Pinta, of Hull, manned by five sea scouts, was forced to put back by a rising wind. The sea was moderate, but a...
Welcome
On the 12th September a gale from the N. suddenly sprang up. About fifty fishing boats were lying at anchor in the roads, and were in great danger of being driven ashore. Part of their crews had landed with their fish, and as they were...
M.V. Cantonad
Storm search BRIXHAM COASTGUARD asked the honorary secretary of St Peter Port lifeboat station at 2030 on Thursday January 4 to put the lifeboat on stand by for MV Cantonad, a 2,200 ton Greek freighter with a crew of 16, reported listing...
Fairwinds
YACHT TOWED INTO HARBOUR Weymouth, Dorset. At 6.24 on the evening of the 5th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing distress flares two miles south of Portland Bill.
The life...
Ada Kirby
CREW OF EIGHT At 1.50 a.m. on 2oth November, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a vessel was aground one mile south of the North Caister buoy. At 2.10, when the tide was two hours before low water, the life-boat The Royal Thames was...
A Vessel (11)
DECEMBER 24TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.
During the afternoon information was received from the coastguard that a vessel appeared to be in difficulties about five miles west-north-west of Hartland Point. A...
Beaulieu
Margate, Kent.—At 1.15 i n the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1948, a tug with a yacht in tow was seen five miles to the northward, making little headway, and at 2.30 the coastguard telephoned that she appeared to have broken down and was...
A Pontoon (1)
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. About eight o'clock on the morning of the 7th September, 1961, the second coxswain received a request, while he was fishing to the north of Hartlepool, from a representative of Messrs. Wimpey and Co. to land men...