LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
United States Life-Saving Service
FROM the Annual Report of the United States Life-saving Service lately issued, we observe that on the 30th of June, 1885, there were 203 stations, 157 being on the Atlantic, 38 on the Lakes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 at the Falls of the Ohio,...
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A Canoe
JULY 17TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.21 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a canoe, with a boy on board, had capsized oil Ness Point. A gentle S.W. breeze was blowing, but the sea was...
Free Lance
JUNE 9TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
About 10.40 at night it was reported that the naval cadet boat Free Lance (a converted life-boat) was dragging her anchors north of New Brighton pier. A fresh westerly wind was blowing,...
May Lily
JULY 27TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
The fishing boat May Lily was overdue No news about her could be obtained and at three in the afternoon a request was made for aeroplanes to search.
They returned...
A Dinghy
JANUARY 29TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 9.31 A.M. the naval base at Great Yarmouth reported, through the coastguard, that an airman could be seen in a dinghy to the N.N.E. A light wind was then blowing from E.N.E., but it...
CATAMARAN CATASTROPHE
A collision in the English Channel becomes a challenging rescue for Dungeness RNLI
4.10am. Wednesday 8 August. Full-time Coxswain Stuart Adams is woken by his pager. There has been a collision in the English Channel and...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
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M.F.V. 7
Drifting on rocks ST ANN'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 1138 on Saturday March 11 that MFV 7, on passage from Fishguard to Pembroke, had engine failure west of St David's...
Fishing Boats (2)
GOUHDON AND JOHNSHAVBN, KlN- CARDINESHIRE. — A large number of fishing-boats belonging to Gourdon went off to fish on the morning of the 15th April, but had to return on account of the E.S.E. gale which came on...
Collingwood
On the evening of the 27th July the coastguard reported that a small motor yacht near Perch Rock was signalling for help, and the motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston put out at 9.10 P.M.
A strong west breeze was...