LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Destroyer Wallace (1)
SEPT. 13TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON.
NORFOLK. Early in the morning information was received that two vessels had been in collision off Lowestoft. A N.E.
gale was blowing with...
Pilot Me and Glad Tidings
FEBRUARY 26TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At one in the afternoon the coastguard reported two cobles in difficulties a mile and a half to the south-east and unable to make the harbour. A north-east wind was blowing, with a...
Two Small Fishing Boats
DECEMBER 2ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the afternoon two small fishing boats were overtaken by bad weather. A strong westerly wind, increasing to gale force, was blowing, and the sea was rough. They were both...
A Small Boat (5)
SEPTEMBER 11TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. At five in the afternoon three men left Burtonport in a small boat for Arranmore, but they had not arrived by nine o’clock. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea....
Gale-force teamwork
New Quay and Pwllheli’s all-weather lifeboats worked together to rescue the crew of the Galasma on 6 September. The yacht, with fi ve people onboard, was having trouble in a force 8 northerly wind. Rough seas meant she wasn’t making much...
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MAY 18TH. - GALWAY BAY. During the afternoon an urgent request for the help of the life-boat was received from a doctor to take him to a serious pneumonia case on Inisheer Island. No other boat was available, and at 4.50 the motor life-boat...
lolanda
APRIL 23RD. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor fishing host, returning to Brixham in the morning, reported that the engine of the fishing boat lolanda had broken down in St. Mary’s Bay. A freshening south-east wind was blowing, and there was a rough...
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Nov. 23RD. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
An explosion had been reported off Cooden Beach, Bexhill. A south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the life-boat searched all night, but found nothing. An increase in the usual...
A New Life-Boat Depot
IN 1882 the Institution opened a store- yard at Poplar, on the Thames. Until about five years before that time its Iife-boats4iad all been fitted at the boat- builders' yards, ropes and gear for each boat being separately ordered from...
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Fishing Boats
NEWBIGGIN.— The fishing-boats proceeded to the fishing-grounds as usual, on the 27th January, and on their return were overtaken by a severe gale which suddenly sprung up from the N., accompanied by heavy showers of snow and a very rough sea...