LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Cairnmona (1)
SUNK IN TWENTY MINUTES.
_ _ Peterhead, and Aberdeen, Aberdeen- shire.—At 11.15 P.M. on the 30th October, 1939, a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was sinking three miles east of Rattray...
The Motor Boats Aleeta Noot and La Falaise
RESCUED BOAT SINKS Margate, Kent.—-At 5.15 in the afternoon of April the 20th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that two small vessels were in distress three miles north-east of Margate. The motor life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil...
None (1)
On the after- noon of 28th May three boys were on the cliffs at Howth Head looking for birds' nests, when one of them slipped and fell about fifty feet into the sea.
One of his companions, a boy of ten, pluckily...
Lady Shirley
Filey, Yorkshire. — At 5.10 in the evening of the 29th of June, 1948, the coastguard saw the salmon fishing boat Lady Shirley capsize. . A fresh breeze was blowing from the north-north-west with a moderate swell. The .boat was close in shore...
Calva
St. Helier, Jersey.—At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 8th of August, 1948, a message was received from the har- bour office that a sailing boat appeared to be in difficulties six miles off Gorey, and at 5.15 the motor life-boat Howard D. put...
Phaedra
PwIIheli, Caernarvonshire.—On the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1948, a south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and at 4.10 the Abersoch coastguard asked the life-boat to search for a sailing boat which had been seen off...
Schollevaer (1)
Newcastle, Co. Down. — At 9.15 in the morning of the 19th of April, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was drifting off Cranfield. Shortly afterwards they reported her in distress, and at 9.50 the life-boat L.P. and St.
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St. Brendan
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 3.20 in the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1949, a Bannow fisherman telephoned that a boat was in difficulties about nine miles west of Kilmore Quay. One of the life-boat's ' carriage-tracks was dis- mantled...
Lucia
Rhyl, Flintshire. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 10th of July, 1958, the coastguard told the assistant hon- orary secretary that the fishing boat Lucia was burning a flare off Llandulas.
The life-boat Anthony...
Hilary Anne
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.22 on the evening of the 14th of July, 1958,the Walton coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser had broken down a quarter of a mile from the Mid Barrow...