LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
Divers found AT 2018 on July 25, 1987 Falmouth Coastguard MRCC received a report of an overdue dinghy with four people on board - two men, a woman and child - and alerted Falmouth's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat Sole Bay, which...
Busiest year on record
The number of annual lifeboat launches has topped 9,000 for the first time in RNLI history. Statistics for 2009 show that volunteer crews launched 9,223 times, rescuing 8,235 people. The charity’s lifeguards also had their busiest year ever,...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Edith Owen
CEMLYN AND CEMAES, ANGLESEY.—On the 27th January, the s.s. Edith Owen, of London, bound from Bristol to Liverpool with a general cargo, struck on the Coal Kock, off the coast of Anglesey, during foggy weather, the wind blowing moderately...
Fairlie and Jane
On the 27th September, at 3.30 A.M., signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Fairlie and Jane, of Beaumaris, bound from Dublin from Llanaelhaiarn in ballast, during a strong gale from the W.S.W., the Thomas Fielden Lifeboat put...
A Boat
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—Two gentlemen and two boys started in a boat fromPenllech, Carnarvonshire, at 2.30 P.M., on the 4th August, intending to sail along the bay; but the wind blowing off the shore with a strong tide the boat was carried...
King Heron
At about 4 A.M. on j the 12th November information was ; received that signals of distress were being exhibited from a vessel near the Old Harry Rocks. Coxswain Wells at once summoned the crew of the Life- | boat Harmar, and proceeded to sea...
The Sailing Boat Roustabout
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 3rd January, 1939, the sailing boat Roustabout, of Lowestoft, left harbour with a crew of four. At 11.30 A.M. the life-boat coxswain, who had gone to the coastguard lookout, saw the boat drifting...
Pinta
The Humber, Yorkshire.—While returning to Hull after a visit to Spurn on the 23rd July, the small sailing yacht Pinta, of Hull, manned by five sea scouts, was forced to put back by a rising wind. The sea was moderate, but a fresh westerly...
Prosperity
THE WHTTBY FISHING BOATS AGAIN Whitby, Yorkshire.—In the early morning of the 30th of April, 1947, several fishing boats put out to move their crab-pots into deep water as stormy weather was pending. About 10.30 two of the boats were seen ...
Gloamin'
— On the morning of the llth January a man was injured on board the local fishing boat Gloamin'. There was not suffi- cient water for the boat to get into harbour and she made distress signals.
The crew of the...