LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The 37-Foot Yacht Gannet
JUNE 5TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Two Americans left Liverpool in the 37-foot yacht Gannet to sail home across the Atlantic. With them was a third man who was to leave them at...
Carula
On the 18th November, while a furious gale was blowing from the N.E., accompanied by such a sea as has seldom been seen here, the brig Carula, of and from Wyborg, bound for Middlesbrough with cargo of pit props, was seen entering the bay....
Loch Alsh
SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA, YORKSHIRE. — On the 29th November, this coast was visited by the most severe gale experienced for many years past. The wind had been gradually increasing from the previous day; until at S A.M. it was blowing a perfect...
Buckingham (1)
Filey, Scarborough, and Whitby, Yorkshire.
—During the evening of the 25th February, 1938, the Grimsby trawler Buckingham, with a crew of sixteen on board, ran aground at Newbiggin Wyke, just north of Filey Brig. A moderate...
Saint Kentigern
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — About 11.25 on the night of the 10th of March, 1952, a life-boatman reported that he had heard a wireless message from the motor vessel Saint Kentigern, of Glasgow, laden with coal with a crew of eight. She had...
Nola and a 10-Feet Outboard Dinghy
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 8.45 in the morning of the 2nd of June, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the pilot cutter Penlee had reported a small yacht in distress about two miles north-east of Sunk Head Tower. At...
Ben Henshaw and the S.S. Saint Oran
Ramsey, IsIe-of-Man.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the motor tanker Ben Henshaw, of London (which was two miles to the north-east) was flying a signal for a doctor. As the weather was...
Siglinde
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 5.0 on the evening of the llth of August, 1951, a visitor reported to the police that a barge seemed to be in difficulties off Holland Haven. The police informed the coastguard at Clacton, but as the Clacton...
Briarbank and Katreen
Buckie, Banffshire.—At 9.15 on the night of the 20th of January, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the local fishing boat Briarbank was tow- ing the fishing boat Katreen to Buckie, but that the weather was becoming worse. Ten minutes...
New Committee of Management Members
THE Committee of Management of the Institution welcomes five new mem- bers.
Rear-Admiral K. St. B. Collins, C.B., O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. (Retd.), was Hydrographer of the Navy from 1955 to 1960, when he retired from the Royal...
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