LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Olive Leaf and Crest
Cloughey, Newcastle, and Ardglass, Co.
Down. — 31st October. The coast- guard had telephoned that an aeroplane was reported to have fallen into the sea about one and a half miles S.E. of St.
John's...
Pleasant Mirth
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 11.50 on the night of the 25th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man living in Marston had reported that a yacht appeared to be in a very dangerous position off Blakeney Point. The...
A Dinghy and a Yacht
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 12.2 p.m. on 2ist September, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized in Newton Bay and that two people were believed to be on board. At 12.5 the IRB...
A Boat (1)
Margate, Kent - At 9.2 p.m. on ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flashes had been reported by the police to be coming from a small boat near the south east Margate buoy and requested that the life-boat stand...
The S.S. Gannet
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 9.50 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel sinking to the east of Peterhead, but other vessels put out, and the life-boat was not launched. At 2.45 next morning the coastguard...
The S.S. Trsat
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 8.57 P.M. the Kinnaird Head coastguard reported that a vessel was being attacked by aeroplanes several miles to the N.E. of the head. She was the S.S. Trsat, of Cardiff (late of Jugoslavia),...
Life-Boat Broadcasts During the War
FOUR appeals were made for the Lifeboat Service during the war in "The Week's Good Cause," in the Home Service of the B.B.C. They were made by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, Lord Winster, a member of the...
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Samsal (1)
Stranded yacht AS DUSK FELL ON Tuesday, October 6, 1987, Liverpool Coastguard MRSC advised New Brighton's station honorary secretary, Captain John Billington, that a small yacht, believed to be the 24ft Samsal, had been observed possibly...
The Icelandic Coaster Tungufoss
Coaster founders AN ICELANDIC COASTER, Tungufoss, in distress four miles south of Longships Lighthouse, was reported by Land's End Coastguard to the deputy launching authority of Sennen Cove lifeboatstation at 2027 on Saturday September...
Magdalen Esther
FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAY. — At about 1.30 A.M., on the 28th October, it was reported that a vessel was ashore on the Langhame Sands, about eight miles west of Ferryside. The wind was blowing a gale from the S.W., with heavy squalls, and the...