LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Olive, of Banff
WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. — On the 26th February, while the fishing boat Olive, of Banff, was attempting to put to sea in a moderate S.E. breeze, but rather rough sea, she grounded on a sandbankat the mouth of the harbour, when a huge wave...
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Galway Bay. On the evening of the 21st of June, 1960, the island medical officer asked if the life-boat would take a sick child to Rossaveal on the main- land, where an ambulance was waiting to drive the child to hospital. As there was no...
A Dinghy (2)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 11.20 on the morning of the 9th July, 1961, the police told the honorary secretary that a dinghy had been seen to capsize about a mile east of the Little Orme and that two men were clinging to...
Girl Alice
Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 1.58 on the afternoon of the 23rd August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Girl Alice had lost her rudder and was drifting near the Barrels lightvessel. At 2.13, when the...
Eemshorn
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.45 early on the morning of the 23rd October, 1961, Anglesey radio station informed the honorary secretary that the cargo on board the motor vessel Eemshorn of Delfzijl had shifted and that the vessel was listing...
Rigel
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 7.29 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel was burning red flares half a mile south- east of the pier. The life-boat Cunard, on temporary...
Hermione
Salcombe, Devon. At 8.45 on the evening of the 10th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a motor boat had broken down and was drifting towards Prawle Point. The life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse put out...
A Rowing Boat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.15 on the night of the 4th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boys, who had been fishing from a rowing boat fitted with an out board motor to the westward of the pier, were...
Patrick
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 1.30 p.m. on loth March, 1967, the Belgian coaster Patrick was reported to be aground on Holm Sand one mile to the east of the coastguard lookout. The life-boat FrederickEdward Crick slipped her moorings at 1.40 in a...
Ocean Lover
DECEMBER 27TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 10.55 in the morning a message was received from the naval control for food to be taken to the drifter Ocean Lover, which had been lying a mile east of the boom for four days owing to thick fog...