LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES. At 10.30 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1943, the 30- feet motor fishing boat Girl Lena, with a crew of four, was fishing off Stornoway. The sea was smooth, with a moderate north-west...
Category: Services
Henry Holman, of Plymouth
On the 14th January the schooner Henry Holman, of Plymouth, was observed in a dangerous position between the Clipera Rocks and Penrhyn Point, An- glesey, while the wind was blowing a very heavy gale from W.N.W. The Holyhead life-boat was at...
Catherine and Margaret
The schooner Catherine and Margaret, of Portmadoc, was at anchor on the llth March, in Porthdinllaen Bay, when in the prevailing N.N.W. gale her anchors commenced to drag. Signals of distress were made, and the Life-boat Barbara Fleming was...
Emma Walker
SUNDERLAND, NORTH DOCK.—While a strong N.N.E. gale was blowing, accompanied by a very rough sea and torrents of sleet and rain, on the 26th October, the ketch Emma Walker, of Sunderland, laden with coal for Wick, attempted to enter the...
The S.S. Windward Islands
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 10th of July, 1954, a shipping agency at Preston telephoned to ask if the life-boat would start out to the S.S. Windward Islands, of Gothenburg, which was due off the Nelson Buoy...
A Steamer (1)
17th November. A steamer had lost her propeller, but she was taken in tow by a trawler.—Rewards, £18 14s..
A Fishing Boat (3)
21st Feb- ruary. A fishing boat was disabled but was taken in tow by a trawler.— 'Rewards, £5 14s..
A Yacht (4)
17th September. A yacht was in distress, but her crew were rescued by a fishing boat.— Rewards, £42 16s..
Morford and Trubey
HAJBWIOH.—In answer to signals from the Cork light-vessel, the Sprmgwell Lifeboat put to sea at about 6.30 P.M., on the llth October, during a strong wind, thick weather and a high sea. She first proceeded to the Sunk light-vessel, and as...
Dorothea
At 4.30 A.M. on the 21st February the Albert Edward Life-boat was launched, signals having been fired by the Swin Middle, Light-vessel. The morning was bitterly cold; a very strong wind was blowing from the N.E., and the sea was very rough....