LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Laertes (1)
FEBRUARY 3RD. - EASTBOURNE, AND HASTINGS, SUSSEX. The Dutch steamer Laertes, of Amsterdam, had struck a mine S.E. of the Royal Sovereign Lightship, and had caught fire, but she was able to reach a Dutch port under her own power. - Rewards :...
A Naval Patrol Vessel
JULY 28TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A naval patrol vessel had sent out an S.O.S. as her steering column had broken, but she was able to repair it.- Rewards, £8 2s..
A Motor Vessel (1)
DECEMBER 13TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. An SOS had been received from a motor vessel on fire off Corsewall Point, but the fire was got under control, the injured members of the crew were taken off by a motor launch, and tugs arrived to...
A Naval Motor Boat
DECEMBER 16TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
A naval motor boat had foundered while going ashore from minesweeper H.M.S. Tenby in a gale, but the life-boat, which made a long search, found nothing. Of the eight men in the boat, seven...
A Small Boat
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire, and HoIyhead, Angelsey.—22nd March.
Searched without success for a small boat which was adrift and eventually made land in Co. Down after thirty-five hours at sea.—Rewards, Porthdinllaen,...
Letter
Thank you! This letter is long overdue to express my thanks and admiration to the 'lads and lassies' of the RNLI in Kyle of Lochalsh. On 16 September last year I brought Morgana my Nauttcat 38 alongside the pontoon in Kyle to take on...
Category: Correspondence
Mary Ann
Co.
DOWN.—The schooner Mary, of New- bridge, Cornwall, made signals of dis- tress on the afternoon of the 5th November. A strong W.N.W. gale was raging, and the Carrickfergus Life- boat put off to her assistance, but their...
The S.S. Cogent
A very thick fog having lifted somewhat about 10 o'clock in the morning of the 20th May, a steamer was sighted aground about half way to the outer part of the rocks off the pier. The No. 1 Life-boat, Robert and Mary Ellis, im- mediately...
St. Ambrose
Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 7.20 in the morning of the 21st of June, 1952, the Kilkeel coastguard reported that a small vessel, one mile off St. John's Point Lighthouse, was flying the dis- tress signal, an ensign upside down, and had also...
None (13)
Ramsgate, Kent.—26th October, 1939.
A vessel had been reported as showing blue flares, but nothing was found.— Rewards, £11 14s. 9d..