LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Chili
Rockets and guns were fired by the Would Light-vessel on the 3rd February.
A moderate breeze was blowing at the time from E. by S., there was a heavy sea and the weather was thick, with rain and sleet, and very cold. At...
H.M. Trawler Marjory Hastie
FEBRUARY 20TH. - TYNEMOUTH, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.13 in the morning the honorary secretary at Tynemouth had a telephone call from the Port War Signal Station that one of H.M. trawlers had struck a mine...
Macedonia and the Robert Stevenson
On the 4th August this Life-boat was again launched to the assistance of the brigs Macedonia, of Blyth, bound from Havana to Peterhead, and the Robert Stevenson, of Shields, from Archangel to London, which vessels, having been caught in a...
The Motor Fishing Coble Hilda (2)
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — Two days later the Hilda was again in need of help. At 5 o'clock in the evening of the 19th of January, 1949, the coast- guard telephoned that she was overdue, and later reported that a trawler was standing by...
A Fishing Vessel
Difficult launch A REPORT FROM LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD that a small fishing vessel was in trouble in the Dee estuary was received by Hoylake lifeboat station at 1050 on the morning of Monday March 24, 1986. A north-north-westerly force 8 gale,...
The S.S. Celt
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 12.40 early on the morning of the 6th of May, 1954, the Walney Island coastguard telephoned that a "Mayday" distress message had been received from the S.S. Celt, of Glasgow, ten miles south of St. Bees Head....
Algorma
Humber, Yorkshire, — At 6.20 A.M.
on the 23rd February it was learned from the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station that the trawler Algorma, of Grimsby, was ashore nine miles north of Spurn, and in need of...
Laurel
On the morn- ing of the 26th September, the fish- ing boat Laurel, of St. Abbs, was seen approaching harbour. As a strong N.E. gale was blowing with a very heavy sea and heavy rain, the Motor Life-boat Helen Smitton was launched at 10.30 A.M...
The Danish Steamer Sparta, Anna
JANUARY 11TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
About 8.30 A.M. the port war signal station reported that the Danish steamer Sparta was in difficulties, and a second message was received shortly afterwards that the Belgian steamer...
A Speed Boat
Jammed gears MOELFRE HONORARY SECRETARY W3S informed by the Coastguard at 1537 on Sunday, March 30, that a 14' open speedboat with a 25 hp engine, carrying a crew of four, had broken down, her gears jammed, 2| nautical miles south south...