LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Five Men Rescued from a Yacht
AT 1.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1955, the honorary secretary of the Lytham-St. Anne's station, Mr. J.
Kennedy, was told by the Formby coastguard that a yacht was at anchor one mile north of Southport...
Category: Services
The American Steamer Byron Darnton, of Baltimore (1)
MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...
SteamBoat
ARKLOW, IRELAND.—On the 9th November, at 6 A.M., it was reported that the fishing lugger Steamboat, of Arklow, which had proceeded to sea on the previous evening, had been overtaken by a heavy N.N.W. gale, which had sprung up at midnight,...
Marina Benvenuto
ABKLOW, IBELANB,—At 3 P.M. on the 28th December the Italian barque Marina Benvemito, bound from Liverpool to Cardiff in ballast, was observed ashore on the -Arklow bank. The wind was blowing from the 8.W., the weather was hazy, and the sea...
Jenny
FMBTWOOD, LANCASHIRE. — At 5.45 A.M.
on the 10th August, it was reported that a vessel had dragged her anchor and was in distress about 2 miles N.E. of the Wyre Light. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.W., and a...
A Small Punt
ARDROSSAN.—On the afternoon of the 31st January it was reported that a man and woman had been observed at about 7 A.M. going off in a small punt to Horse Island for the purpose of gathering whelks, and as a gale had suddenly sprung up from...
Aurora
FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.—The coastguard having reported that a vessel was burning flares S. of the Head, near the Smithic Sands, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., with a heavy sea, on the 26th January, the Life-boat Matthew Middlewood...
Standard
About noon on tbo Gth August, during a strong W.N.W. gale and rough sea, the Coastguard reported that the ketch Standard, of Fowey, was dragging her anchors and was in danger on a lee shore in Dublin Bay. The Life-boat Dimleary was promptly...
Golden Hope
At 10 A.M.
on the 25th February the Coastguard at Kilkeel reported that there was a skiff apparently in difficulties and in want of assistance about five miles off.
Within ten minutes of the message being...
James O'Neil
In re- sponse to a telephone message from Liverpool, on the 3rd April, stating that a schooner was ashore on Taylor's Bank, the steam Life-boat Queen pro- ceeded to her. On arrival they found the schooner James O'Neil, of Kinsale,...