LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolute
JANUARY 28TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11.42 A.M. the coastguard reported that a sailing barge had struck a mine to the S. by E., three quarters of a mile from Holland look-out hut, and had blown up. A light S.W. breeze was blowing...
Sarah Ellen, of Liverpool
ABERYSTWYTH.—Just before dark on the 20th February, while it was blowing a hard gale from the N.W., the schooner Sarah Ellen, of Liverpool, bound from Plymouth to Belfast, was seen driving before the storm, with sails blown away, towards the...
The Life-Boat.—By E. Duncan
JOURNAL.
From Once a Week—New Series.] THE LIFE-BOAT.—BY E. DUNCAN..
Category: Drawings
The Fishing Research Motor Vessel William Herdman (1)
Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.
—About 4.30 in the afternoon, on the 6th of September, 1950, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port Erin life-boat station that the fishing re- search motor vessel William...
Edith May
On the 10th April the motor schooner Edith May, of Wexford, bound from Douglas to Ardrossan with a cargo of scrap iron, was overtaken by bad weather and anchored. A whole S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and heavy rain. Her anchors...
Success
Whitby, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 7th of March, 1958, the local motor fishing vessel Success was at the fishing grounds. During the day the weather became very bad, and at 2.25 in the afternoon the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
Valerie
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 7.29 p.m. on 2ist September, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen in a position three miles southwest of Shoreham. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at 7.38 in calm...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.10 a.m. on 5th December, 1964, the use of the life-boat was requested to transfer a sick person from Herm Island to Guernsey.
At 5.32 the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put out into a smooth sea...
Zana
OCTOBER 19TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
At 4.48 in the morning, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore one mile to the east, and at 5.50, in calm weather, the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched. She...
The Ship's Boat Volga
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.20 on the night of the 23rd of April, 1959, a stageman told the honorary secretary that a converted ship's boat was adrift off New Brighton with two young men and two girls on board. At 10.32 the life-boat...