LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Beneath wind and wave
Sport diver and RNLI supporter Brian Minehane gets bitten by the maritime archaeology bug thanks to a sunken antique lifeboat …
I am an Irishman from Dublin, born in Kent, England, and who now...
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A Rowing Boat
APRIL 5TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
During the morning, four of the crew of the minesweeper Port Rose, which was anchored two or three miles to the north of Sheringham, came ashore in a rowing boat. The weatherwas fine with a...
A Sailing Boat
At about 7 A.M. on the 19th October two young men started from Lynmouth with the intention of sailing to Porlock, but when off the Foreland the adverse wind and tide carried them about five miles out into the Channel. Here they got into...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.27 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small rowing boat was anchored off Holland-on-Sea near the buoy marking the sewer. Her occupant was waving a...
A Naval Pinnace (1)
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORT PATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
At 1.10 in the afternoon the coastguard reported to the Girvan lifeboat station that a naval pinnace was flying a distress signal off Ballantrae. The...
A Solitary Voyager
The schoooner Happy Return, which left Sunderland with coals, was sometime since towed into Dundee by the Hull steamer Queen, with only one hand (a lad named WILLIAM CHARLTON) on board. It seems that after leaving Sun- derland, the schooner...
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A Trawler (2)
MCH. 6TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
A trawler was in distress and her crew had landed on the uninhabited island of Hascosay, but they were taken off by another trawler.- Rewards, £13 6s. 6d..
A Motor Yacht
SEPTEMBER 30TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO.
DOWN. A motor yacht had broken down in Dundrum Bay and had burnt flares, but she had been driven ashore before the lifeboat could reach her and her crew were able to land. The yacht was...
A Halifax Bombing Aeroplane
AUGUST 8TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A Halifax bombing aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but no survivors were found by the life-boat. Five of the crew of eight, four dead and one alive, were picked up by motor launches. - Rewards, £14 4s. 6d....
A Steamer (24)
APRIL 23RD. - RAMSGATE, WALMER, AND MARGATE, KENT. A steamer had been mined and had sunk off the North Foreland, but her crew were taken off by naval vessels. - Rewards : Ramsgate, £5 3s. ; Walmer £14 12s. 6d. ; Margate, £9 8s...