LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Inflatable Dinghy (2)
Two ILBs search A SMALL INFLATABLE DINGHY in which it was thought there were two boys and which appeared to be in difficulty 600 yards off Southerness Light was reported to Silloth ILB station by Ramsey Coastguard at 1819 on Wednesday May 2;...
Majorca
Torbay: The crew from the cargo vessel Majorca are put ashore at Brixham. At 0430 on Saturday September 18, 1982, Majorca, 20 miles south east of Straight Point, sent out a may day call; she had a list of 5 degrees and her cargo was shifting...
M.V. Pass of Dirriemore
Small tanker AT 2135 ON Friday January 9 Hartland Coastguard asked Clovelly lifeboat to stand by ready to launch to go to the help of a small tanker, MV Pass of Dirriemore, laden with chemicals. She was disabled with mechanical failure...
The S.S. Gairsoppa
MARCH 1ST. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.
The S.S. Gairsoppa, of Glasgow, 5,000 tons, with a crew of thirty, had been torpedoed and had sunk. At 10.30 A.M. the life-boat motor-mechanic saw a small boat with survivors on board. A...
The S.S. Donaghadee and Arestal
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 8.15 on the night of the 1st of April, 1949, the Civic Guard reported a message from the Coast Life-saving Service that the s.s. Donaghadee, of Belfast, was aground at Castlerock, Dundalk Bay, with a broken rudder...
Craignair
Torbay, Devon.—At 7.42 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, the Babbacombe Corinthian Sailing Club informed the Berry Head coastguard that a vessel was flying a distress signal a mile and a half east of Oddicombe, and the coastguard informed the life...
Ebb Tide
CRYSTAL CLEAR A curious story emerged when the motor cruiser Ebb Tide of Chiswick lost oil and needed assistance on 9th June. The Dover, Kent, life-boat Faithful Forester—she is one of six 44-foot steel life-boats in service—went out at 6.37...
The Helwick Lightvessel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At twelve noon on the 10th of February, 1953, the Superintendent of Trinity House asked if the life-boat would take a mechanic to the Helwick lightvessel, as the light needed attention. At 9.35 on the morning of the...
Penarven
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 11.5 p.m.
on 9th December, 1965, the coastguard reported that a motor fishing vessel had broken down in the Helford River opposite the Ferry Boat Inn and that she was dragging her anchor. The...
Zircon
On the bar TWO RED FLARES sighted on the south side of Portmadoc Estuary, near and inside the bar, were reported to the honorary secretary of Pwllheli lifeboat station by Coastguard Porthdinllaen at 0035 on Thursday, September 1. The wind...