LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
Thirty-one fishing-cobles belonging to this village were out on the 30th Sept., 1868, when the sea rose, causing them to run for Cullercoats; but, on approaching the bar, it was found they could not attempt to take it without great risk. The...
Tranmere
SELSEY.—The barque Tranmere, of Liverpool, bound from Hull to Cardiff in ballast, brought up off Selsey Bill, during a gale of wind from the 8. and in a very heavy sea, at about noon on the 2nd September.
A fisherman's...
Scotish Isles
At 6 P.M. on the 17th of May a full-rigged ship was observed on the Goodwin Sands, and just then a signal of distress was hoisted. The crew of the Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton were summoned and the boat was launched. On getting alongside...
Princess
On the evening of the 8th July, Coxswain Grunnill received a telephone message from the Coastguard stating that a vessel was flying a signal of distress. He launched the Life-boat Samuel Lewis, and on arrival found the vessel was the ketch...
Kopenes
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.45 P.M. on the 22nd September, 1939, the signal station reported that red flares had been seen in an easterly direction. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. At 8.48 P.M. the motor life-boat...
Carry On
Aberdeen.—During the morning of the 25th August, 1938, the Gregness coastguard reported that distress signals had been heard off Girdleness.
Wind and sea were slight, but there was a dense fog. The No. 1 motor life-boat...
A Fishing Boat (1)
On the morning of 8th April messages were received from the Coastguard and Police that a fishing boat was in distress in the Rock Channel. The No. 1 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Anne Miles left her moorings at 11.45 A.M. in a moderate N.W....
Arantzazu
The Span- ish steamer Arantzazu, of Bilbao, stranded six miles south of Haile Buoy on the 14th January, while bound laden from Bilbao to Imming- ham. She carried a crew of twenty- nine. She wirelessed for help and the motor life-boat City of...
the Silver Cloud
Coverack, Cornwall.—On the 22nd September a fisherman took three visitors out fishing in his motor launch, the Silver Cloud, of Coverack. They were expected back by seven in the evening, but as they had not returned by midnight, and anxiety...
The Converted Schooner Hispaniola
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 3.15 in the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1949, a telephone message was received that a converted schooner, the Hispaniola, which was being used by a film com- pany, was dragging her anchor close inshore in the...