LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Trinity
Cromarty. — In the afternoon of the llth of November, 1951, the S.S.
Trinity, of Panama, wirelessed that she had been damaged and needed a pilot. She would be off Cromarty that night, and asked for a boat to meet her at...
Life-Boat Photographs In Birmingham
THE exhibition of life-boat photographs which was shown last year in London and Edinburgh was shown in Birming- ham from February 12th to 20th of this year, through the kindness of Messrs. Lewis's, Ltd., of Liverpool, Manchester and...
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Garlock
Lowes toft, Suffolk.—At 6.58 on the evening of the 24th of August, 1957, it was reported that a yacht had cap- sized off Claremont pier. The life- boat Greater London (Civil Service No.
3), on temporary duty at the station,...
Marlene
Appledore, Devon - At 4.4 p.m. on I4th September, 1966, concern was felt for the safety of a barge which had been moored on the gravel bank northwards of Crow Point, on the morning tide. Her crew of four had reboarded her when she dried out....
Kremlin
At 6 A.M.
on the 8th April the Coastguard re- ported that a three-masted steamer was ashore on the north side of Rattray Head. The No. 1 Life-boat George Pickard was launched without delay and proceeded, under sails, to the...
Allan
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.59 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a barge close to the pier was sending morse signals indicating the need of a life-boat. At 12.15 the life-boat Sir...
Guide
DUNBAR, HADDINGTONSHIRE.—About half-past five on the morning of the '25th March information was received that the schooner Guide, of Faversham, bound for Grangemouth from London with a cargo of pig iron, was ashore on a reef of rocks...
Fishing Cobles (1)
During a strong S.E. gale with a very heavy sea on the 21st March, the Life- boat Ada Lewis was launched to the assistance of twelve fishing cobles of New biggin, which had been overtaken while at sea by the gale. Two of the cobles were...
Fishing Cobles (1)
SIX COBLES ESCORTED IN NEAR GALE Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.5 on the morning of the 24th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that several local fishing cobles were still at sea. As the weather was becoming worse the...
The S.S. Deloraine
On the 29th January a gang of eight men, for salvage purposes, boarded the s.s. Delo- raine, of Glasgow, which stranded off Ballantrae in a blizzard at the end of December. The weather at the time was fine, but the W.N.W. wind gradu- ally...