LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
A MAYDAY RELAY message from the Danish motor vessel Charlottenburg was heard by St Peter Port Signal Station at 1323 on Sunday December 13, 1981.
Charlottenburg was going to the assistance of Bonita, an Ecuadorian motor...
Category: Services
Kate
WHITEHAVEN.—On the evening of the 17th September about 5 o'clock, at about half tide, there was a strong southwesterly wind and a heavy sea. The schooner Kate, of Peel, 122 tons register,was coming into Whitehaven Harbour light, for coal...
The Passenger Steamer Nottingham
During thick weather on the llth December a vessel was observed ashore on the Scroby Sands, opposite to the Life-boat station.
There was a strong breeze blowing, and a ground swell on the Sands. The crew of the No. 1...
Pansy
At 9.40 P.M. on 26th September it was reported that distress signals were being made from the north shore. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Edward and Eliza were promptly assembled, and inquiries were made by telephone for further information...
A Boat
Anglers all at sea Three anglers in an ill-equipped 12ft open boat had a lucky escape at Penarth on 28 February 1989 when their anchor started dragging in a Force 7 wind and 8ft to 13ft seas and their outboard engine failed to...
A Sailing Boat
Two towed AT ABOUT 1600 on Wednesday December 6, 1978, Robert Gorman, a fisherman and ILB crew member at Aberystwyth, saw a capsized sailing boat and the college rescue boat about 400 yards off shore. Realising that they would need help he...
A Rubber Collapsible Boat (1)
OCT. 18TH. - WHITBY, AND RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. The coastguard reported a vessel firing signals six miles north of Whitby.
A moderate N.E. wind was blowing with a choppy sea. At 7.45 P.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat was...
The S.S. Fort Vermillion, of London
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - WALMER, KENT.
At 5.59 in the evening the Deal coastguard reported that the S.S. Fort Vermillion, of London, of over 7,000 tons, bound to Middlesbrough from Tangiers, was aground on the Goodwin Sands south...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CAHORE, Co. WEXFORD.—A messenger arrived at this Life-boat Station from Morris Castle, distant about three Irish miles south, on the evening of the 17th May, and reported that a vessel was stranded on the Blackwater Bank. The Life-boat John...
Category: Services
Ridesdale
RAMSGATE.—On the 13th November, at 3 A.M., during a fresh breeze from the E.N.E., signals were fired from the Gull lightship, in response to which the Bradford Life-boat and steam-tug Aid proceeded to the sands, and found a barque ashore...