LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Lassell
Cloughey, Co. Down. — At 12.30 in the early hours of the 10th of August, 1952, the coxswain reported that a vessel had gone aground on the north end of North Rock, about three miles off Cloughey, and at one o'clock the life-boat...
A Tynemouth Service: Nineteen Landed
THIS account of a service by the Tynemouth life-boat in September, 1949, should have appeared among the services for that month in The Life-boat for December of last year.
On the evening of the 23rd of Sep- tember, 1949,...
Category: Services
Halcyon (1)
Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.45 A.M. on the 27th September, 1939, the Deal coastguard reported a motor barge drifting ashore to the N.E. of their station. A heavy sea was running with a strong easterly wind. At 7.5 A.M., the motor...
An Aeroplane
AEROPLANE CRASHED Lerwick, Shetlands—At 12.9 in the morning of January 3rd, 1947, an aero- plane could be heard flying round the town, and it dropped red flares. A strong southerly breeze was blowing, causing a rough sea, and as it appeared...
None (1)
GIRL FOUND IN WATER BY TANKER'S BOAT Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 10.28 on the night of the 6th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that cries for help had been heard by the crew of the tanker Hamilton Trader, which...
Delightful (1)
COXSWAIN'S SONS RESCUED Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys, and Wick, and Thurso, Caithness- shire. At 5.30 p.m. on I7th December, 1963, the coastguard told the Longhope honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Pentland...
Several Speed Boats, Welsh Lady III and a Cabin Cruiser
RACE CALAMITY Beaumaris, Anglesey; Rhyl, Flintshire; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.
On nth July, 1965, thirty-two speed boats were taking part in a race at Llandudno when a south westerly wind of near gale force sprang up,...
Progress (3)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1955, the no. 1 life-boat second cox- swain reported that the local fishing boat Progress, which had a crew of five, had not returned from the fishing grounds to the...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Astor and Leidulf
Stronsay, Orkneys.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1956, the Kirkwall coastguard reported that a Norwegian fishing vessel was ashore on Yasa Skerry and that another in attempting to help her had also run aground. The life-boat...
A Boat
Exmouth and Torbay, South Devon.— At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1956, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that the Devon County Constabulary had reported that two children who had gone out from Dawlish in a small boat had...