LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat (2)
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — 18th May. A search was made for a fishing boat which had been last seen twentyseven miles to the N.N.E. She could not be found, but she made Buckie safely next morning.—Rewards, £9 135..
Aires
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in diffi- culties about three miles off Penmaen- mawr. The life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella...
J. & J. Monks (1)
Blackpool, Fleetwood, and Lytham-St.
Anne's, Lancashire.—In the evening of the 14th November the Liverpool steamer J. & J. Monks, bound from Fleetwood to Runcorn with a cargo of gravel, anchored about three miles...
Auckland
At about 1 P.M. on the 9th November a steamer was ob- served aground on the north part of the Scroby Sands, and in* response to her signals of distress the crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden were assembled and the boat launched. The...
Oyster Catcher
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 1.50 in the afternoon of the 8th of June, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that a small yacht had capsized two OT three miles out, south of the Medusa Buoy, and the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. left her...
A Small Rowing Boat (1)
Donaghadee, Co. Down. — On the afternoon of the 15th September the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was returning to harbour after her quarterly exercise when a small rowing boat was seen near Foreland Point. Owing to cross currents this...
A Dinghy
Barrow, Lancashire - At 1.23 a.m.
on 23rd August, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small dinghy was overdue from a fishing trip offBiggar bank. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at 1.45. It...
Elizabeth, of Bridgewater
On the night of the 6th March, lights were observed from Holyhead, n the neighbourhood of the Clipera Rocks.
The life-boat stationed at Holyhead was ac- cordingly launched, and proceeded to the ;pot in the face of a heavy...
The S.S. Seniority
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 10.30 on the night of the 7th of November, 1950, the coastguard reported lights close inshore. Later he said a vessel had apparently gone aground, although she had made no distress signals. How- ever, at...
Montauban (1)
JANUARY 9TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE, AND HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. At about 5 A.M. information was received through the Cullercoats Wireless Station that a vessel was in distress. The weather was calm and fine, but cold. The motor life-boat Louisa...