LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CEMAES, ANGLESEY. — The 30-feet 6- oared Life-boat, at Cemlyn, on the coast of Anglesey, has been transferred from that place to Cemaes, about four miles to the eastward. Since the lighthouse has been placed on one of the islands opposite...
Category: Articles
Camelia, Magdalene, Mon Ami and Annie Mearns
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—Nine of the large fishing-boats went out to the line fishery grounds, about ninety miles distant from the land, on the morning of the 8th May. On the following evening the wind, which was blowing from E.N.E., increased...
Ansgar
Shortly before midnight on the 13-14th February a messenger reported that a vessel was ashore opposite Ardross Castle, half a mile east of Elie. It was blowing a S.S.W. gale with a heavy sea running.
The crew of the...
Eskimo
At 11 P.M. on the 26th October the Coastguard reported to the Life-boat Coxswain, George Johnson, that the message S.O.S.
had been received at the Cullercoats —Wireless Telegraph Station from a vessel ashore on the south...
An Aeroplane (5)
Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.29 P.M. on the 9th September, 1939, the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the...
Beatrix Fernande
Whitehills, Banffshire.—At 9.12 on the night of the 14th of December, 1955, the Banff coastguard reported that a vessel had sent a wireless distress message that she had run on the rocks west of Gardenstown. At 9.25 the life-boat Sr. Andrew,...
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary Argo
— On the morning of the 1st May the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at Copt Point, between Hythe and Folke- stone. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the weather was foggy. At first it was thought that...
Mint
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford.—At 11.10 on the night of the 14th .of August, 1948, the Lowestoft steam trawler Lord Anson reported that the steam trawler Mint, also of Lowestoft, was calling for help on her radio, and the motor life-boat...
Betty II
At 2.30 P.M. on the 29th September the coastguard tele- phoned that a small boat was in trouble off The Foreland. A little later another message was received that the boat had been taken in tow, but that a motor boat in Minnis Bay was in dis...
A Boat (1)
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...