LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rainbow
Life-boat and safely landed at 8.45 A.M.
On the 3rd March flares were seen on the North Sand and signals were fired by the light-vessel. The Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 2.35 A.M. in a very heavy sea, the wind...
Henry Harvey and Rebecca
On the following day a very severe »ale was experienced here, the wind blowing with hurricane force from the N.N.W. and the sea being very heavy.
The Thomas Fielden Life-boat was called out five times. On three...
William Humphries
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—10th January.
On the night of the 9/10th January a man in Tenby picked up a wireless call for help from the steam trawler William Humphries, of Milford.
This message, which...
The S.S.Locksley
Berwick » on - Tweed, Northumberland.
—Very early on the morning of the 9th March, 1938, the coastguard reported that the s.s.Locksley, of Montrose, bound from Stonehaven for Stockton-on-Tees with a cargo of oats and...
A Sand-hopper
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—On the morning of the 26th November, 1938, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore off the Dysinni River. A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The pulling and sailing life-boat Jones-Gibb was launched at...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year collected £148 9s. 8d. on their life-boat day in July, although, with the life-boat station temporarily closed since the wreck of the Cullercoats life-boat last April, it could not be held as usual...
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Brionie
Selsey, Sussex.—On the evening of the 22nd April, 1939, the yacht Brionie ran aground two miles W.S.W.
of Selsey Bill, while on passage from Lymington to Newhaven with a crew of three. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a...
A Yacht (1)
TWO OVERBOARD At 4.34 p.m. on 24th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been fired at a position about 200 yards west of a wreck in Whitesand bay. There was a gale force southerly wind with a...
The Bermuda Rigged Yacht Keg
When on 20th June the Bermuda rigged yacht Keg with one man aboard ran aground about half a mile south west of the NE Victory wreck on the Goodwin Sands, the Walmer, Kent, lifeboat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32}—she is a42-foot beach...
Norma, of Bremen
At midnight on the 30th December the same life-boat put off again, in tow of the steam-tug Aid, in reply to signals of distress from the light-vessel on the Goodwin Sands.
While proceeding to the southward at the back of...