LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CRICCIETH.—At about 1 p.m. on the 18th June, the schooner Catherine Henry,of Aberystwyth, while going from Abersoch to Portmadoo, was overtaken by a strong N.W. to N.N.W. gale and a very rough sea, and was in a very dangerous position near...

Just browsing: North Cotswold branch ran a souvenir stall at the Moreton in Marsh agricultural show in September 1985. The show is one of the largest one-day shows in the country and the organisers very kindly donated a prime spot for their... - View image in PDF

Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.15 early on the morning of the 19th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Naess Falcon of Monrovia, had a sick man on board. At 1.30 the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson,...

Dover, Kent - At 3.53 p.m. on 24th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an open boat with two men in it had been seen drifting eastwards in the Channel. The life-boat Southern Africa was launched at 4.23 in a light...

Whilst the schooner Waterlily, of Barnstaple, was riding at anchor in St. Tudwall's Roads on the 4th December she parted her starboard chain during a S.S.W. gale which sprung up, and made signals of distress. The Life-boat Old'kam...

On the 1st Decem- ber, during a terrific gale, the brigantine Vitruvius, of Liverpool, was seen to anchor in a very dangerous position in the Skerries Roads. The Zelimda life-boat was at once launched, but, after proceeding some distance, it...

On the afternoon of the 2nd October the coast- guard reported that the Shoreham Harbour tug Adur II, while towing a hopper out to sea, had fouled^her propeller, and was drifting on to a lee shore. A strong, and increasing, S. breeze was...

PETERHEAD.—On the evening of the 28th April the wind increased to a gale, from E.S.E. and a heavy sea sprung up.

As some fishing-boats were expected to arrive from Shetland, and the approach to the harbour was dangerous, it...