LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Balloon Vessel Thora
APRIL 26TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 2.50 A.M. the naval authorities reported that the balloon vessel Thora had got on to the boom defence, but that the tug Yorkshireman was going to her help. A whole W.S.W. gale was...
The Admiralty Tug Amsterdam
MARCH 8TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 9.8 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship ashore on Redcar Rocks, N.E. of the pier.
A little later it was learned that the vessel was the Admiralty tug Amsterdam. The...
A Ship and an Aeroplane
OCTOBER 20TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEX-FORD. At 6.30 in the evening a small tramp steamer was seen on her way westwards inside the Coningbeg Lightship, when two German aeroplanes attacked her. One aeroplane dropped three bombs, but they all missed...
The Auxiliary Fishing Smack Alice
JULY 23RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 6 P.M. information was received from the Mersey Dock Board that a fishing vessel was ashore on Burbo Bank, west of the training wall. There was not sufficient water to get near the vessel, but she was...
Solstad (1)
Broughty Ferry, Angus, and Aberdeen.
—10th October, 1939. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear disabled, about fifteen miles S.E. of Montrose, and the Montrose motor...
Solstad (1)
OCT. 10TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS, AND ABERDEEN. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear dis-abled, about fifteen miles S.E. of Montrose, and the Montrose motor life-boat was unable to...
Erlo Hills (1)
Fourteen rescued A TRAWLER, Erlo Hills, ashore north west of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyllshire, was reported by Clyde Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Campbeltown lifeboat station at 0655 on Friday October 2, 1981. Maroons were fired...
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Lifeboat Services
Scotland North Division Twenty-nine rescued JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT on Monday September 29, 1980, the deputy launching authority of Stornoway lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard that the 1,615 gross ton motor fishing vessel Junella...
Category: Services
Notre Dame De Toutes Aides
A telephone mes- sage from the Kentish Knock Light Vessel, in the early morning of the 7th April, reported the stranding of the schooner Notre Dame de Toutes Aides, of Nantes, on the sands. The Margate Life-boat attempted to launch, but the...