LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jamaica
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 6.50 a.m. on loth November, 1965, the local trawler Jamaica was reported aground on the sandbank off Lowestoft harbour. She had sent out a 'Mayday' call. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick went out at 7.5 in...
Faithful II and Sovereign and a Trinity House Tender
Holy Island, and North Sunderland, Northumberland. — At 5.22 on the evening of the 5th of March, 1952, the Holy Island coastguard re- ported to the Holy Island life-boat station a message received from the North Sunderland life-boat station...
The S.S. Vistula
OCT. 9TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS. Information was received through the coastguard at 1.45 P.M. that the S.S. Vistula, of Gothenburg Sweden, had been sunk by enemy action on the previous day twenty-five miles off Unst, that nine of her crew had...
December (1)
DECEMBER MEETING, LOSSIEMOUTH, MORAYSHIRE. About 5.30 in the morning of the 30th July, 1941, a motor fishing vessel at sea, some four miles N.W. by N. from Lossiemouth, heard shouts for help, and cruising round picked up two airmen from a...
Category: Services
The Mail Steamer Pioneer, of Glasgow
Portaskaig, Islay.—During the morning of the llth March the mail steamer Pioneer, of Glasgow, left Portaskaig for West Loch Tarbert. She had mail and twenty-two persons on board. When she was about eight miles east of Macarthur's Head...
Morena
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 7.5 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1952, information was received from the coastguard that a yacht had burned a red flare four to five miles north- north-west of Tol-Pedn-Penwith. The life-boat Susan Ashley was...
A Sailing Boat (2)
MAY 30TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, AND WORTHING, SUSSEX. During the afternoon a sailing boat, with a crew of two, father and son, capsized about two miles off Goring. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea.
At...
Life-Boat Days In 1947
IN 1947 the Institution held 817 flag days. The number of people who gave was 7,545,000, and the sum given was £93,503..
Category: Donations
Aegir
JUNE 22ND. - PORTHDINLLAEN CAERNARVONSHIRE. The Dutch motor vessel Aegir, of Groningen, had sprung a leak, but she was piloted in by a Bardsey Island motor boat, and was beached at Porth Oer.
- Rewards, £5...
Minnie
RAMSGATE.—In answer to signal guns, the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford went out in tow of the harbour steam-tug Vulcan at 2.15 A.M. on the 14th of March, during a fresh N.E. wind. After cruising about for some time without finding any vessel in...