LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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S.S. Jan Van Goyen
JANUARY 9TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 9.30 in the morning, the senior naval officer telephoned that the S.S. Jan Van Goyen, which had lost both anchors and carried away her windlass, had stood out to sea. She was one of...
Elax and Polgarth
DECEMBER 22ND. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. The No. 2 life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson was launched at 5.40 P.M. as information had been received that a vessel was in distress near C.11 Black Buoy.
A light easterly breeze...
A Small Boat (3)
Anglesey.—27th July.
Searched unsuccessfully for a small boat the only occupant of which, Captain Owen Jones, a Gold Medallist of the Institution, was drowned. (See Obi- tuary, page 604.)—Rewards, £5 5s. 6d..
A Large Vessel
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—2nd July. A large vessel was reported to have foundered after blowing her siren.
Visibility was poor and actually the vessel had disappeared into the fog.—• Rewards £5 12s..
Le Fleme
St. Helier, Jersey, and St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—12th July, 1938. Anxiety was felt for the French yacht Le Flerne, which had been missing since leaving Cherbourg five days earlier, but no trace could be found of her.—Rewards: St. Helier,...
A Yacht (1)
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—29th July, 1938. A yacht had been reported overdue, but was later found on the Antrim coast and the life-boat was recalled.
The owner made a donation to the Institution of the amount of the rewards...
A Fishing Boat
Weymouth, Dorset.—31st July, 1938.
A fishing boat had been reported overdue, but she was waiting at the Shambles Light-vessel until a thick fog cleared.— Rewards, £3 15s..
A Motor Launch
Torbay, Devon.—22nd July, 1339.
A motor launch with a number of passengers on board was overdue, but she was towed in by a motor trawler.— Rewards, £4 13s..
Lochinver's New Boat
On 25th July, 1969, the ceremony for opening Culag Pier took place at the same time as the arrival of the new Lochinver, Scotland, life-boat the George Urie Scott. The new boat—she is a 48-foot 6-inch Oakley Mark III type—was provided by a...
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