LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Margaret Herd
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 10.5 on the night of the 8th of April, 1958, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Margaret Herd, of Fraserburgh, was ashore at Point of Ham in the Island of Bressay, near the...
Erratum
IN the March 1955 number, the cap- tion to a photograph of the Seaham life-boat incorrectly described it as the Sunderland life-boat..
Category: Articles
Remedy
Dover, Kent.—At nine o'clock on the night of the 24th of September, 1955, the police reported that the motor yacht Remedy, which had a crew of two, was in distress between the South Goodwin lightvessel and the Goodwin Sands. At 9.35 the...
H.M.S. Musketeer and Saucy
Barrow, Lancashire.—At three o'clock in the morning, on the 26th of Septem- ber, 1950, a message was received from the Walney coastguard, that H.M.S.
Musketeer, which was being towed to Liverpool by the tug Saucy, for a...
A Gift from Swedish Lloyd
ON the morning of the 25th of May the Swedish Lloyd Steamship Com- pany's new steamer, the 7,700 ton Patricia arrived at Tilbury on her maiden voyage from Gothenburg. She then came up the Thames to the Pool of London, and lay at New...
Category: Donations
Mina Cantiquin
On the 4th of November, 1951, the Coverack life-boat rescued the crew of seventeen of a Spanish steamer. For a full account of this service, and the rewards, see page 284..
Earn of Fraserburgh
ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Arbroath, Angus. At 8.53 on the evening of the 28th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a fishing vessel was firing distress rockets two miles off Auchmithie.
Within...
A Boat
MAN TAKEN OFF NORWEGIAN FREIGHTER Salcombe, Devon. At 6.40 on the evening of the 6th August 1962, the honorary secretary received a message from the Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, that a man and his boat had been picked up by the Norwegian...
Desire
CREW RESCUED FROM FISHING BOAT AGROUND Stromness, Orkneys. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 16th February, 1963, the ex-coxswain, after returning from lobster fishing, telephoned the present coxswain to report that the local fishing boat...
Triumph
COBLE ESCORTED IN ROUGH SEA Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.45 on the morning of the 4th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he had learnt from the coxswain, who had been out on a fishing trip, that one of the small local...