LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alfred
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress having been observed at the end of the breakwater, the Life-boat Thomas Fielden was launched at 5 A.M. on the 10th January, in a strong S.W. gale and a heavy sea and found the schooner Alfred stranded on the...
Hans
HARWICH. — The Cork light - vessel having signalled on the 6th June, the Steam Life-boat City of Glasgow left her moorings at 9.15 P.M., and on reaching the lightship ascertained that a vessel was on the West Bocks. A moderate breeze was...
Donation from the Scottish Fisheries
IT will be remembered that during the terrible gales in the winter of 1929 to 1930, great damage was done to the Scottish fishing fleet. On one day, llth November, 1929, it was estimated that the fleet, when fishing off the East Anglian...
Category: Donations
Margaret
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 12th March the weather got very bad, and several of the local boats at sea returned to harbour. One boat, the Margaret, was still to come, and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was...
An Aircraft
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—During the night of the 31st March, 1938, the coastguard reported that an aircraft had come down in the sea off Brighton, and was firing Very lights. A light west breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. The motor...
Laura and Prospector
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—Early in the afternoon of the 9th January, 1939, a man reported that his son and two other men who had gone out in the motor fishing boat Laura to shoot cod lines had not returned when expected.
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Rosehearty
YACHT FOUND NEAR ROCKS IN FOG St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 4.20 on the morning of the 22nd April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was ashore and had been holed three miles west of St. Abbs Head. At 4.40 the...
The Seine-Net Fishing Boat Avondale
DOCTOR TAKEN TO FISHING BOAT Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 9.45 on the morning of the 12th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the seine-net fishing boat Avondale of Hartlepool, which was making for Scarborough, had a sick man...
The Danish Motor Vessel Idalith
DANISH VESSEL ESCORTED INTO HARBOUR Fowey, Cornwall. At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 7th March, 1963, Lloyd's agent at Fowey informed the honorary secretary that a vessel had gone ashore north-east of Par harbour while attempting to...
Nanica
TWO MEN RESCUED FROM SAILING DINGHY New Brighton, Cheshire. About five o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th April, 1963, the Wallasey police informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was seen to be in trouble off the auxiliary...