LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Fishing Vessel
New Brighton, Cheshire - At 6.30 p.m. on 3rd April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing vessel was aground on the revetment wall a quarter of a mile northwest of the New Brighton lighthouse. The life-boat...
A Dinghy (3)
Ballycotton, Co. Cork - At 12.50 a.m.
on 20th July, 1966, a small dinghy, with four youths aboard, was reported missing.
At 1.50, following a message saying that boat could not be found in the harbour, the...
The Panamanian Motor Vessel Pacific Trader
Walmer, Kent - At 3.45 p.m. on 2yth December, 1966, a large steamer was thought to be aground near the B.I.
buoy on the Brake Sands. Visibility was poor and the vessel was just visible. The life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil...
A Motor Launch
Taking water A LIGHT, CONFIRMED to be a signal for help from a vessel behind the rocks at Irelands Eye, three quarters of a mile north east of Howth lifeboat station, was seen by the harbour master at 2125 on Tuesday, July...
Three Cutters
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 11 A.M. the naval authorities reported that a naval cutter, being used for training purposes off Douglas, was being driven on to the rocks at Onchan Head. A strong W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a...
Peggy
JULY 17TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At 8.30 in the morning information came from Troon pilot house that a small fishing boat was flying a flag and appeared to have broken down three miles south-west of Troon. At 6.45 the motor life-boat Sir David...
Dinghies
Near gale in Chichester Harbour A CAPSIZED SAILING DINGHY with children and an adult in the water, sighted at the entrance to Emsworth Channel some five miles from Hayling Island ILB station, was reported to the honorary secretary by HM...
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, Dec. 6, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.' Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read and...
Category: Committee
The S.S. Fulham IV
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 16th of November, 1955, Lloyds' agent reported that the S.S. Fulham IV, of London, was mak- ing for Gorleston with a sick man, and asked if lie could be...
Gien Mie
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 16th of December, 1957, a local resident heard on his radio that the fishing vessel Gien Mie, of Fleet- wood, needed help. He told the honorary secretary, and at 1.40 the life-boat Ann...