LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary, of Wicklow
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - WICKLOW. At five in the morning seven local boats went out fishing three miles north of Wicklow. The weather was moderate, but by six o’clock it had worsened. Six of the boats returned, and anxiety was felt for the safety...
The Irish Steamer Kerrymore
NOVEMBER 21ST. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 12.55 in the morning the watchman reported rockets and flares from a ship between South Shear Buoy and Tuskar, and at 1.5 the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched. A southerly...
An Aeroplane
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—10th September.
During the King's Cup Air Race it was reported that an aeroplane had come down in North Bay, but actually it had crashed on Castle Hill.
—Rewards, £13 12s....
Waterbell
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.
—8th August, 1951. For a full account of this service, see page 2-41. Rewards: Silver Medal to Second Coxswain Wil- liam Dop, Thanks on Vellum to Reserve Mechanic Cyril G. O'Dell....
Asia
The Humber, and Bridlington, Yorkshire.
—26th August, 1939. Rockets hadbeen seen, but the life-boats could find nothing. On her way back the Humber life-boat found the small racing yacht Asia, of Brough, which had lost her...
A Ship (2)
SEPTEMBER 17TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. A ship had been reported ablaze off Tory Island, but she could not be found.
Later she went ashore off Horn Head.- Rewards, £14 12s..
University Marine Ltd.
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Zeehond
Plymouth, Torbay, and Salcombe, Devon.
—On the evening of the 9th January, with a strong south-westerly gale blowing, and a very heavy sea, information was received through the coastguard that signals of distress had been...
Craigievar
Eyemouth, Berwickshire. At 4.12 on the morning of the 25th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three red flares had been seen off Fort Castle Head, three miles west of St. Abbs Head. The life-boat Clara and...
British Inventor
JUNE 13TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET, At 7.50 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the oil tanker British Inventor, of London, 7,000 tons, had been torpedoed or mined near the Shambles Lightvessel and was sinking. The weather was...