LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
United States Life-Saving Service
AT the close of year ended the 30th June, 1908, there wore 280 stations in the United States Life-Saving Service this number being two in excess of the total for the preceding year. The stations were subdivided as before into thirteen...
Category: Articles
The Danish Brig Alexander
On the j 27th March the Mary Ann Story, the Life-boat stationed here, rendered im- portant services to the Danish brig Alex- j ander when that vessel was in a distressed j state near the Manacles Bocks on the Cornish...
A Small Boat
31st Jan- uary. A small boat was blown out to sea, but the life-boat failed to find her.
She was washed ashore on the Ayrshire coast thirty-six hours later with her occupant still alive.—Rewards, £20 9s..
Eastbourne's D Class
Eastbourne's D class inflatable lifeboat is pictured helping a windsurfer ashore on Sunday, September 13. He was one of several who got into difficulties during a weekend of bad weather along the south coast.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (157)
OCTOBER 1 2TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. Red rockets had been reported and then a message came that an aeroplane had crashed on the coast, but nothing was found, and later it was learned that the aeroplane had crashed on land.- Partly...
A Fishing Boat (2)
APRIL 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND , HEBRIDES. A ship’s boat, with sails up, had been reported some miles off the coast, but could not be found, and it was learnt later that she was a small fishing boat under sail, and not in need of help. - Rewards,...
Eamont
During a moderate N.E. gale, with a rough sea and snow showers, on the morning of 31st March, the Mechanic of the Motor Life-boat R.N.L.B. 684 RM. saw the steam trawler Eamont, of Fleetwood, which was bound from the fishing grounds to...
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Fowey, Cornwall. —At 2.3 early on the morning of the 12th of August. 1954, the Polruan coastguard reported that a vessel was sounding blasts on a fog- horn near Gwineas Rock about one mile west of Mevagissey. At 2.31 the life-boat C.D.E.C....
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Arbroath, Angus.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 24th of July, 1955, the police reported that a boy was stranded on the rocks at Red Head.
At 0.30 the life-boat Howard I), was launched. The sea was calm, the...
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.
—On the 30th of June, 19.51, the Chief Inspector of the Irish Lights Com- missioners asked if the life-boat would take provisions to the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse next day. The Commis-...