LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Trawler Clotilde
FEBRUARY 9TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 2.25 P.M. the coastguard reported that H.M. Trawler Clotilde was ashore on the north beach about one hundred yards from the north pier, and ten minutes later the naval authorities...
Pontfield (1)
OCTOBER 11TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 9.57 A.M. the coastguard reported that the after part of the tanker Pontfield, in tow of a tug, was making heavy weather off the port. On 15th September the Pontfield had struck a mine off Cromer and...
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1870
THE Board of Trade has recently published the Wreck Register of the United Kingdom for the past year. As usual, it is a most interesting document, convey- ing much useful information on a subject of national importance.
On...
Category: Annual Reports
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1948
Yeisons Time of rescued from 1948. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 2. 3.20 p.m. S.S. Silvia Onorata, of Naples. Walmer life-boat stood by vessel „ 4. 2.50 p.m. / and rescued _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 80 ,, 4. 7.40 a.m....
Category: Services
A Tow Through a Gale to Aberdeen
AT 4.16 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1953, the coastguard rang up the honorary secretary at Aberdeen.
He passed on a message, which he had had from a hotel at Muchalls, that a fishing boat was burning flares off...
Category: Services
A Motor Fishing Vessel
ILB in near gale RED FLARES SIGHTED Off WhitStable Street Buoy were reported to the honorary secretary of Whitstable ILB station by Warden Point Coastguard, Isle of Sheppey, at 2342 on Friday, February 25. In view of the bad weather...
Vamoss II
Yacht saved BRIXHAM COASTGUARD contacted Exmouth lifeboat station on the morning of Friday June 21, 1985 with the news that a yacht was in difficulties one mile off shore to the east of Sidmouth. Six minutes later, at 1046, the station's...
Two Niner
Six rescued despite Atlantic steering fault Outstanding seamanship and determination during a five-hour service has earned David Wells, helmsman of Clacton's Atlantic 21 lifeboat, the RNLI's Bronze Medal. Crew member Terence...
February (1)
CROSSAIG, KINTYRE, ARGYLLSHIRE. Just before daylight on the 26th of May, 1943, a Royal Naval aeroplane dived into the sea near Crossaig, north of Carradale, on the east coast of Kintyre. The weather was fair, the sea smooth. Eleven men were...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
POUNDING SEAS BREAK FISHING VESSEL IN HALF Three saved as lifeboat crew battle storm force winds and heavy seas George Duffy, second coxswain/mechanic and Ian Sheridan, deputy second coxswain/assistant mechanic of Howth's Arun class...
Category: Services