LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
the Brothers' Pride, Comet, Harriet Miller and Gem
ST. ANDREW'S.—Four fishing-boats, the Brothers' Pride, Comet, Harriet Miller and Gem, belonging to St. Andrew's, were returning from haddock-fishing on the evening of the 16th February when they were overtaken by a gale of wind...
None (12)
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 2.1 p.m. on i3th August, 1966, information was received that a man had fallen overboard from a yacht in the Needles channel. At 2.10 the life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe was launched. The tide was flooding....
Valerie
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 7.29 p.m. on 2ist September, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen in a position three miles southwest of Shoreham. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at 7.38 in calm...
Fishing Boats (3)
Arbroath, Angus.—The local fishing fleet put out during the early morning of the 23rd November, 1938, in fine weather. Later on a S.E. wind sprang up and rapidly increased to gale force. The sea grew very rough, with heavy rain, sleet and...
The S.S. Belfri
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At ten o'clock in the morning of the 29th of June, 1952, a message was received from the agents of the S.S. Belfri, of Oslo, that she was making for Storno- way with a woman aboard who was seriously ill. The...
Muirneag II and Bounteous
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 9.20 on the night of the 29th of March, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen in Broad Bay.
At 9.45 the life-boat William and Harriot put out. The sea was rough with a...
Ada Gane
PALLING, NORFOLK.—While a moderate wind was blowing from E. by N., accompanied by a heavy sea and a dense fog, on the 26th February, the Coxswain of the Life-boat was informed that a vessel was riding in a dangerous position near the outer...
Royal
£ HOLYHEAD.—About 7.45 on the evening of Sunday, the 27th January, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather, a vessel was seen in the outer roads burning signals of distress. The steam...
Moran
TAKEN TO STORNOWAY Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 11.15 P-m. on i2th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Moron of Glasgow, which wished to land a sick man at Stornoway, was now off Bayble, and asked if...
Langfonn
NORWEGIAN APPEAL Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At ii p.m. on 5th June, 1964, a shipping agency in Stornoway told the honorary secretary that a radio message received via Oban Radio had stated that a Norwegian vessel was making for Stornoway...