LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Colley
FOUR YACHTSMEN LANDED FROM DUTCH VESSEL Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.35 on the evening of Wednesday the 7th of August, 1963, the Wyke coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch motor vessel Zundrecht had four survivors from the motor...
Etoile du Marin
SCARBOROUGH.-—On the morning of the 8th December, at 10 o'clock, the schooner Etoile du Marin, of and for Dunkirk from Leith, with coal, was approaching the harbour during a strong gale from the E., and a very heavy sea, and as it was...
Alexander
At about 8.50 A.M. on the 28th July, the Coast- guard reported that they had received a message from the Grunfleet Lighthouse stating that a ketch was high and dry on the Gunfleet Sands. As a strong S.W. breeze prevailed at the time with a...
Morecambe August 10 1986:
Morecambe, August 10, 1986: Morecambe was one of the three stations at which the prototype Evans/Avon D class inflatable lifeboat had been on trial. The station's new lifeboat, funded by the bequest of Mr and Mrs William Herring in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Groveland
On the morning of the 25th November it was reported that a steamer was apparently ashore near the Inner Binks, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 10.15 A.M. The wind was only light, with a slight ground sea, but...
Magne
NOVEMBER 20TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
At 11.10 A.M. a steamer was seen to be aground on Robin Rigg Bank, about five miles north of Maryport. A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. Visibility was very bad. At 11...
Two Lowerstoft Trawlers
On the 24th February, whilst a strong westerly breeze was blowing, accompanied by a very heavy sea, it was reported that two Lowestoft trawlers were making for the harbour. As the tide was ebb it was considered advisable to have the No. 1...
A Lobster Fishing Boat
LOBSTER BOAT DRIFTING IN A GALE Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—During the morning of the 20th of November, 1947, the relatives of two local men who had put out in a lobster fishing boat, reported that they were overdue and as a moderate south...
Lora
Dover, Kent - At 7.40 a.m. on 26th May, 1969, Dover harbour board control tower informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties two and a half miles south west of Dover. At 7.55 the life-boat Faithful Forester slipped her...
Ex-Coxswain Patrick Sliney
Ex-Coxswain Patrick Sliney, of the Ballycotton, Co. Cork, life-boat, who won the R.N.L.I, gold medal for gallantry for one of the most famous services in life-boat history, died at the age of 87. Mr. Sliney was alsoawarded the silver and...
Category: Obituaries