LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aquilla
OC T O B E R 5 T H . - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 10.20 A.M. the Mersey Dock Board reported that the coasting steamer Aquilla, of Liverpool, was flying distress signals in Formby Channel off Q3 Red Buoy. A moderate westerly gale was blowing,...
Passages of Life-Boats In the Gales. Port Patrick, Troon, and Moelfre
THREE new Motor Life-boats which left the building yard at Cowes for their Stations during the gales—the 40-feet Watson Life-boats for Port Patrick (Wigtownshire), Troon (Ayrshire) and Moelfre (Anglesey)—were subjected to as severe a test as...
Category: Articles
Rito (1)
Submerged object struck HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Filey lifeboat station at 2048 on Tuesday December 20, 1983, that the coaster Rito was in difficulty three miles north east of Filey Brigg.
Water was...
The Littlehampton, Sussex, Irb Blue Peter
The Littlehampton, Sussex, IRB Blue Peter I, alongside a naval torpedo recovery boat after a gas explosion aboard the vessel on 25th May, 1970. A naval mechanic was badly burned.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Soviet Trawler Topaz and French Yacht Campscharles
Three nations THE SOVIET TRAWLER Topaz making for a position off Bournemouth with a French yacht, Campscharles, in tow was reported to HM Coastguard Solent RHQ by Lands End RHQ at 0910 on Thursday,October 14,1976. Two survivors aboard the...
Kerry
Running into danger ON THE AFTERNOON of Friday September 11, 1981, the 26ft yacht Kerry left Douglas, Isle of Man, bound for Glasson Dock, Lancaster, crewed by two men.
Although the weather and visibility were good, there...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.
February Meeting.
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.—On the afternoon of the 8th January, the Avonmouth haven master...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — Two men returning from work early on the morning of the 15th March, 1890, saw the lights of a steamer ashore on the Bondicarr Beef. A strong S. wind was blowing, there was a heavy swell, and the weather I was hazy....
Category: Services
Dorothea
The Life- boat James Stevens No. 14 left her moorings at 6.45 P.M. on the 27th April to go to the assistance of the barge Dorothea of Harwich, which was in difficulties about 1| mile from the Naze. Her sails had all been blown to pieces, her...
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
The life-boats at Padstow and Appledore were out all night in a gale on Christmas Eve, searching for an unknown vessel, and on Christmas Day the Galway Bay life-boat fetched a soldier, on leave from Italy, from the mainland to his home in...
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