LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Ship’s Boat (1)
APRIL 2 9TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. At 10.50 A.M. the lighthouse reported a partly submerged ship’s boat about one and a half miles to the south-west, and the motor life-boat Mary Stanford was launched at 11 A.M. An easterly breeze was...
Oscilla
St. Marys, Scilly Islands - At 9.43 a.m. on 21st October, 1968, the honorary secretary learnt that the captain of the tanker Oscilla was in a coma and had to be brought ashore.
The life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter, with a...
Tonny
Berwick- on- Tweed, Northumberland, and Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—On the morning of the llth of February, 1956, the motor vessel Tonny, of Dordrecht, appeared to be aground off Berwick.
A little later she was seen to move...
Charlotte Kilner
About 11 o'clock in the morning of the 6th July a ketch stranded on the Barber Sands. The accident was observed, and as the vessel failed to float off the No. 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy was despatched to her assistance. There was a strong...
Alexander
At about 8.50 A.M. on the 28th July, the Coast- guard reported that they had received a message from the Grunfleet Lighthouse stating that a ketch was high and dry on the Gunfleet Sands. As a strong S.W. breeze prevailed at the time with a...
The S.S. Milwaukee
PORT ERROL., ABERDEENSHIRE.—The Life-boat Frances Camilla Howard was launched at 11 o'clock on the night of the 16th September and proceeded to the s.s. Milwaukee, of Liverpool, which had shown signals of distress, having stranded on...
The Motor Fishing Coble Mayflower
Whitby, Yorkshire.—-During the morning of the 4th December the motor fishing coble Mayflower, at sea north of Whitby, appeared to be in difficulties, and a watch was kept on her. A strong, squally N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea....
The S.S. Radstock
STEAMER TOWED IN St. Mary'*, Scilly Islands.—At about 10.40 on the night of the 4th of October, 1947, the Round Island Lighthouse wirelessed that a vessel was firing dis- tress signals about two miles north of the island, and the motor...
Skerryvore
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 6.30 on the morning of the 3rd of August, 1960, information was received that a yacht was aground in Machrihanish Bay. The life-boat City of Glasgow 11 put out in a fresh-to-strong north-north-westerly breeze...
A Vessel (20)
JUNE 7TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 10.28 P.M. a message was received at the life-boathouse from the Royal Engineers Signals at Princes Golf Club, that a vessel near there was showing flares, and at 10.45 P.M. another message came from the...