LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lilian
FISHING BOAT TOWED IN New Brighton, Cheshire.—-At about 4.45 in the afternoon of January 13th, 1947, the Hoylake coastguard reported that a fishing boat had put out from Hoy- lake and had not returned. A boat, apparently in difficulties,...
The Southport and St. Anne's Disaster
DECEMBER 9th of last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the great disaster on the Lancashire coast when the life-boats at Southport and St. Anne's were both capsized, with the loss of 27 lives, in an attempt to rescue the crew of the...
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Spray
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 8.30 P.M. on the 18th August the Wyke coastguard reported a small craft in distress off Ringstead. A moderate breeze was blowing, with a very choppy sea. The motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched at 8.38...
A Firefly Aeroplane
Cromarty, Whitehills, and Buckle, Banffshire.—About 1.30 in the after- noon of the 4th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Guiding Star returned to Whitehills with wreckage of a Firefly aeroplane which she reported had crashed about three and a...
Loch Lomond
North Pier L.S.A., Torry L.S.A. and the Aberdeen life-boat.—At 10.33 on the morning of the 23rd of October, 1952, the Assistant Harbour Master reported that the steam trawler Loch Lomond, of Aberdeen, was in distress in the Navigation...
The S.S. Virginia
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 12.10 early on the morning of the 24th of De- cember, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Virginia, of Panama, had run ashore one mile west of Atherfield but had not made any distress signals....
The Mersey Dock Board No. 4 Pilot Boat
Moelfre, Anglesey.—About ten o'clock on the night of the 16th of January, 1950, the Holyhead coastguard tele- phoned that the Mersey Dock Board No. 4 Pilot Boat had struck a sub- merged object in Moelfre Bay and was in need of help. At...
Brighter Hope
Ramsey, Isle of Man;—At 5.17 on the evening of the 22nd of May, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship seemed to be on fire six miles east- north-east of Queens Pier. Later on, he reported that she was a drifter and had been taken in...
The S.S.Pandora and the S.S. Gripfast (2)
Tessmouth, Whitby, and Runswick, Yorkshire. — In the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the S.S.Pandora, of Beaumaris, foundered in a gale and a very heavy sea one and a half miles off Runswick, with the loss of her crew of six. The...
Aarla
A NINE HOURS' SEARCH Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—A few minutes after five in the morning of the 17th of June, 1947, information was received through Portpatrick Radio Station and the coastguard, from a vessel, eight and a half...