LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Limecold
On the 9th January the steam trawler Limeicold of Grimsby, when outward bound, ran ashore on the north side of the " Black Middens." The motor Life-boat Henry Vernon proceeded to her assistance and brought up alongside the vessel....
Splendour
SICK MAN ABOARD Lerwick, Shetlands. Shortly after midnight on the 3Oth November, 1963, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Splendour, seventy-five miles eastby- north of Lerwick, had a sick...
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Life-boat 70-002 at Scapa pier, Orkney -At 11.30 a.m. on 18th April, 1969, a man was seen by a member of the life-boat crew to fall from the end of Scapa pier into the sea. The IRB carried aboard the life-boat was launched at 11.31. The tide...
Dandelion
Life-boat 44-001 at Sheerness, Kent - At 2.41 p.m. on 17th August, 1969, the coastguard told the staff coxswain that the catamaran Dandelion had capsized between Nos. 8 and 9 jetties of the Kent oil refinery on the Isle of Grain. The...
Loch Wasdale
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT PETERHEAD DECEMBER 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 3.50 in the morning the coastguard reported to the motor-mechanic of the life-boat signals of distress from a vessel in the direction of Buchan Ness. The...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SWANAGE, DORSET.—In the month of January, 1875, a shipwreck took place on the Peveril Ledge, off this place, and it was only with difficulty, and by incurring much risk, that the crew were saved through the exertions of the Coast- guardmen...
Category: Articles
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Thirty-third Annual Meeting of this excellent Society was held at the Cannon Street Hotel, on the 15th May last. In the absence of the President, His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, the Chair was taken by Admiral the Hon. ARTHUR...
Category: Meetings
Fishing Boats
A large number of fishing-boats were running for the harbour during a heavy gale of wind from the S.W. and a rough sea, on the morning of the 24th of April.
At 8 o'clock the Dora was launched, and remained afloat eight...
The S.S. Grove Hill
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 7.14 on the evening of the 23rd of November, 1952, the coastguard said he had learnt from a wireless signal that distress rockets had been seen four miles east- by-north of Cromer. The life-boat Henry Blogg was launched...
The Sand Boats David P. and Harfat
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 3.5 in the morning of the 15th of January, 1952, a resident of Newport telephoned that a sand boat had been driven ashore off Newport, and at 3.30 the life- boat Mono, was launched. A westerly gale was blowing,...