LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services: Scott's Feat In Dinghy
SCOTT'S FEAT IN DINGHY NEWS of a boy in the water clinging to an upturned boat on 12th April led to the Mumbles, Glamorganshire coxswain, Mr. Derek Scott, B.E.M., taking out a dinghy as with the strong ebb tide which was running he...
Category: Services
Prospect
EYEMOUTH, N.B.—On the 26th December, the smack Prospect, of this place, came into the bay before daybreak, and as the sea in the roadstead was heavy at the time, her anchor was dropped butdid not hold; the waves then drove the vessel in...
Annie Jane, of Runcorn
The Courtown life-boat was also launched on the 14th August, and rendered valuable assistance to "the schooner Annie Jane, of Kuncorn, which was stranded in the road- stead off Courtown, during a heavy gale from the S.S.E., and had...
Ethel
About 4 o'clock in the afternoon on the 8th January a telephone message was re- ceived from Newcastle stating that a schooner had been sighted to the south- westward drifting in an apparently disabled condition. A look-out was kept and...
Elizabeth
On 16th February the ketch Elizabeth, of Bideford, when endeavouring to enter Bude Harbour in a heavy ground sea, got into difficulties, and was driven on to the rocks on the north side of the harbour, where seas continually broke over her,...
Fishing Boats
HOLY ISLAND.—Several boats put to sea on the morning of the 20th January, intending to proceed to the fishinggrounds.
The weather was thick and heavy, and soon after the boats had departed heavy breakers were rolling over...
Farndale
Cromer, Norfolk.—-At 6.5 in the even- ing of the 26th of January, 1949, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore 200 yards south of Bacton, and the No. 2 life-boat Harriot Dixon was launched at 6.25. There was dense fog, but the southerly...
A Speed Boat
Hartlepool, Durham. At 2.30 on the afternoon of 3rd of July, 1960, the second coxswain was informed that a speed- boat had capsized off the breakwater.
The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) was launched at...
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NOVEMBER 29TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
About ten in the morning a doctor telephoned that he had heard from Stroma Island that a woman on the island had broken a leg. There was no doctor or nurse on the island, and the heavy...
Chr. Christensen
Signals of distress called out the Life- boat Forster Fawsett at 4.40 A.M. on the 16th February. She found the steamer Chr. Ghristensen, of Copenhagen, ashore on the south end of the Longstone Island, where she had stranded whilst bound to...