LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sinking speed boat
7 July: Tower, London Lifeboat crew members saved four lives with minutes to spare when a speedboat sank on the Thames just south of the Millennium Bridge. Unable to stop the water rushing in, the group made an...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1884
THE Wreck Register which has been issued within the last few days by the Board of Trade affords, in its elaborate and care- fully prepared tables, abundant matter for consideration and thought. Many of the facts laid before us draw from us...
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lolanda
Torbay, Devonshire.-—At 6.5 A.M. on the 24th June, 1938, the Berry Head coastguard reported that a small motor boat with one man on board had run on to a submerged rock near Berry Head.
A gentle west breeze was blowing;...
Barracuda
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 20th of August, 1950, the life-boat Elsie, on temporary duty at the station, was launched to help the motor yacht Barra- cuda, of Belfast. With a crew of four aboard, shs had...
Brenjean
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 10.30 on the night of the 26th of Mav, 1953. a man rang up to say that the motor fishing boat Brenjean, of Yar- mouth, had gone aground on the south side of the entrance to Castlebay har- bour. At...
Seddon
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 9.30 on the night of the 8th of April, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was reported ashore near Goat Island. The coast- guard confirmed the report at 10.20, saying a trawler was...
Glebe
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.30 on the night of the 2nd of October, 1948, the local sailing club telephoned that the club secretary had gone out for a sail at 4 o'clock that afternoon in his yacht Glebe, but had not been seen since, and at...
Fishing Boats
Ranugate, Kent.—At 11.5 on the night of the 12th of September, 1949, a vessel was reported aground on Quern Head,off the Brake Sands; and at 11.17 the life-boat Mary Scott, 011 temporary duty at the station, left her moorings.There was a...
Tiza, of Weymouth
Weymouth, Dorset - At 3.25 p.m.
on 2 ist April, 1967, a fishing boat was reported to be ashore in the middle of the Portland breakwater. The life-boat Lloyd's, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at 3...
Chalon
Campbeltown, Argyllshire - At 12.30 p.m. on igth June, 1967, a message was received that the motor fishing vessel Chalon, which had left Campbeltown on the 18th to attend to her lobster pots at Arran, had broken down on the return journey...