LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Peggy, June and Ann, Barbara and Joan, and Joan and Mary
JANUARY 24TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
Four of the Filey motor fishing boats, Peggy, June and Ann, Barbara and Joan, and Joan and Mary, were out fishing. A strong wind got up from the S.E., with a heavy swell, and at 12.25 in...
Glenmore
JANUARY 13TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11.14 A.M. the coastguard reported a sailing barge aground on the Gunfleet Sands, four miles S.E. of Clacton pier. A moderate S.S.W. wind was blowing, with a rather rough sea. The motor lifeboat...
Various Vessels (1)
JANUARY 11TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY, and PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the afternoon information was given by the coastguard to both stations that vessels had been torpedoed or mined six miles west of Rhoscolyn. The Holyhead motor...
Ripple
RHYL, NORTH WALES.—Signals of distress having been observed on the 12th April, the Life-boat Caroline Richardson was launched at about 3.30 AM., and found the yacht Ripple of and for Liverpool, from Conway, with three men on board, at anchor...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PALLING, NORFOLK.—About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne....
Category: Services
The Fundraisers
Rowing raisers No apologies for featuring RNLI fundraisers the Hythe Hookers again - these ladies are always seen to be up to something intriguing! On New Year's Day they dressed up as cops and robbers and took part in the annual Maldon...
Category: Articles
Glena and Queen of Britain
SWANSEA.—On the afternoon of the 27th August the coxswain of the Lifeboat received a telegram stating that three vessels were ashore between Swansea and Neath. The wind was then blowing a gale from the W.S.W., and the sea was rough. The...
Andover
GILES' QUAY (DUNDALK), Co. LOUTH.
—At about 11 o'clock on the same morning (9th February), the brigantine Andover, of Dublin, which had lost her mainsail and had become unmanageable, stranded about one mile from...
William Martin
Dur- ing a strong N.N.W. gale and rough sea on 6th January, signals of distress were observed from a vessel about eight miles south-east of St. TudwalPs Light- house. The Life-boat Margaret Platt of Stalybridge was launched at 4.15...
The Five Masted Schooner Helen W. Martin
At 6.30 P.M. on the 18th November a telephone message was received, stating that a large vessel had struck a mine and was at anchor about three miles off Orfordness. As the amount of damage was unknown and the sea was rough, the No. 1 Life-...