LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Ship’s Boat (3)
SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. A ship’s boat with seventeen men from a torpedoed steamer had been sighted, but they were picked up by the Barra Head Light-house supply boat which was making her weekly trip to the...
The Fishing Fleet
The fishing fleet belonging to this port were overtaken when at sea by a whole S.S.E. gale and very heavy sea, which suddenly arose on the 14th January. Fearing that an accident might occur to some of the boats, and be attended by loss of...
A Fishing Boat
Two fishermen of Appledore went mackerel fishing off Rock's Nose on the afternoon of the llth August. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth.
A sudden squall capsized the boat, and both men were...
A Boat (1)
SMALL BOAT ADRIFT New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.40 p.m. on 7th October, 1964, the stageman told the honorary secretary that a small boat was adrift in midstream off Brazil buoy, in the river Mersey. Three men were on board and she was...
A Belgian Trawler
TOW ROPE PARTED Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 11.20 p.m. on 9th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Belgian trawler was towing another Belgian trawler whose engine had broken down off St. Annes Head. The tow tope...
A Boat (1)
Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 1.47 on the afternoon of the 24th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small pulling boat was in difficulties half-a-mile east of the south pier light. There was a moderate...
A Bar Tip
• As last year, I would like once again to pay for my 1973 copies of THE LIFEBOAT.
I look forward to the Journal. I find it very interesting and informative.
After I have finished with it, I put it on the...
Category: Correspondence
A Dinghy (4)
Bangor, Co. Down; At 8.51 p.m. on 15th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with two people on board was in difficulties off Craigavad. At 8.57 the IRB launched in a strong, gusting to gale force...
A Boat (6)
AUG. 20TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. At 7.30P.M. a message was received from the police stating that some boys in an open boat were missing and had been last seen drifting to sea. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing. The sea was smooth. The...
Pepita
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 19th of December, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary Secretary that red flares had been seen from the Shipwash lightvessel two miles to the north-west of the light- vessel's...