LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ferry Boat
GORLESTON.—The dandy Ferry Boat, of Great Yarmouth, bound on a mackerel fishing voyage, stranded on the South Scroby Sand in thick weather, a rough sea, and a strong wind from N.E. by N., on the 7th Jane. She showed a signal of distress, and...
Jewess
CAHORE, Co. WEXFORD.—A messenger arrived at this Life-boat Station from Morris Castle, distant abont 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...
Hans
HARWICH. — The Cork light - vessel having signalled on the 6th June, the Steam Life-boat City of Glasgow left her moorings at 9.15 P.M., and on reaching the lightship ascertained that a vessel was on the West Bocks. A moderate breeze was...
Two Sailing Boats
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 6.40 on the evening of the 3rd of July, 1954, the life-boat Dunleary II had reached her station again after towing in the motor boat Phoenix. She then learnt that two sailing boats, each with a crew of two, had...
Aline II
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.43 on the night of the 10th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht without lights was drifting on the strong ebb tide. There was a strong south-south- easterly...
Gold Mist (1)
Dover, Kent.—At 1.20 on the after- noon of the 26th of July, 1957, the Sand- gate coastguard telephoned that the yacht Gold Mist, of Newhaven, appeared to be making little progress in heavy weather two and a half miles south of Copt Point....
A Dinghy (3)
Mcelfre, Anglesey.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 14th of August, 1957, a dinghy three miles north-east of Moryn Point, Dulas, was seen drifting out to sea. Five minutes later the life-boat Watkin Williams was launch- ed. There was a rough...
Encouraging the Young
A good illustration of how the energies of the young can be harnessed with the encouragement of older members of the R.N.L.I. is the case of Jane and Debra Whiting, aged 10 and 12, of Grimsby, who this year held a garden sale at their home...
Category: Donations
Two Landing Craft The L.B.V.33, and The L.B.V.42
JANUARY 2 4TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. About 2.30 in the afternoon the naval authorities asked, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to go to the help of two landing craft about a mile south of Shoreham. A strong southerly wind was...
Altivo, of Lisbon
On the night of the 23rd February, a vessel was ob- served on shore inside the South Tail Sand- bank, Bideford Bay. The wind was blowing a gale at the time from W.N. W. The Hope life-boat was promptly launched, and pro- ceeded towards the...