LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Seven Men Rescued from Trawler Aground
FOUR minutes after midnight on I3th December, 1963, the coxswain of the Caister life-boat, J. R. Plummer, learnt from the Gorleston coastguard that a vessel appeared to be in trouble two miles from the North Denes look- out. Coxswain Plummer...
Category: Services
Fortuna
PLYMOUTH.—Sockets were sent up from Batten Coastguard Station during a very heavy gale from S.W. to W.S.W. at 6 A.M.
on the 28th October. The Life-boat Clemency went out to render assistance to any vessel in distress, and...
Francine
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.25 in the evening of the 28th of December, 1951, the master of the motor vessel Fran- cine, of Antwerp, who had come ashore to get stores, reported that the Francine was drifting ashore a hundred yards off Weymouth...
A Starving Crew
ON 27th October, when the motor life-boat from Pwllheli was out on practice in half a gale, with a heavy sea running, she was hailed by the steamer Marjorie, of Liverpool, anchored in St. Tudwal's Roads. The Marjorie was on her way to...
Category: Services
Maldon and District Branch Made a Collection Down the River Blackwater on Its Flag Day Last July D H Purnews Gaff Cutter Tamarisk Backed Up By Maldon Little Ship Club
Maldon and District branch made a collection down the River Blackwater on its flag day last July. D. H.PurneWs gaff cutter Tamarisk, backed up by Maldon Little Ship Club guard boat, motored down as far as St Lawrence Bay approaching all... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Milky Way
On the 9th November, the No. 2 Lifeboat Godsend went out in reply to signals of distress, and assisted to save the schooner Milky Way, of Fraserburgh,which was in a dangerous position close to the Barber Sands, during a very strong northerly...
Milo
BURNHAM, SOMERSETSHIRE.—The Lifeboat- Cheltenltam was launched at 4.30 A.M.
on the 3rd September to the assistance of the brigantine Milo, of Brisham, which had stranded on the Gore Sands during a heavy gale from the...
Mary Watkinson
On the 12th February, signals of distress were shown by the three-masted schooner Mary Watkinson, of Barrow, and the Life-boat Thomas Fielden therefore went to her assistance. She was drifting towards the shore at Penrhos Point, dragging her...
Millom Castle
On the same day that the first rescue of the crew of the Arctic Prince took place, the ketch Millam Castle, of Barrow, was seen making signals for help in St.
Tudwal's Outer Roads, Cardigan Bay.
She...
The S.S. Antigone
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.47 on the even- ing of the 31st of January, 1954, the coastguard reported that a message had been received by the North Fore- land radio station that the S.S.
Antigone, of Antwerp, needed help ten miles...