LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Granero
The Norwegian steamer Granero, of Drammen, bound with a cargo of pit-props from Finland for South Alloa, ran ashore at Crawton, twenty miles south of Aberdeen, on the evening of the 23rd October. She carried a crew of eighteen. A moderate...
The Esthonian Steamer Mina (1)
Penlee, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—On the 21st December the Esthonian steamer Mina, of Parnu, got into difficulties through her rudder shaft breaking.
A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
A Vessel (2)
Holy Island and North Sunderland, Northumberland.
—Early on the morning of the 28th February the coastguard reported to the Holy Island life-boat station that a vessel was in distress in Goswick Bay. A north-easterly...
A Gallant Search at Dunmore East
AT 11.45 P.M. on the 14th January, 1938, the civic guard at Tramore, Co.
Waterford, reported that lights had been seen at sea, possibly from a ship in distress. The crew of the motor life-boat C. and S. was assembled, but a...
Category: Services
Maraat V (1)
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1953, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned a message to the Caister life- boat station from Palling that a vessel had gone ashore half...
Mr. Claude Hart of the Lizard
MR. CLAUDE M. HART, secretary of the station at The Lizard, Cornwall, retired at the end of last September after serving for 39 years. He had then passed his 79th year. He brought to his work for the Life-boat Service a great love of the sea...
Category: Articles
Albas (1)
High and dry on the Goodwins RAMSGATE HONORARY SECRETARY Was informed by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2025 on Thursday, September 11, 1975, that, following a number of reports of red flares sighted over the Goodwin Sands, Walmer lifeboat had...
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A Yacht Tender
Tender capsizes EIGHT PEOPLE set out in a yacht tender from Donaghadee in the early evening of Monday July 13, 1981, to return to a motor cruiser anchored just outside the harbour. As the tender, which had very little freeboard, left the...
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