LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Five Men Rescued from Dutch Coaster
AT 1.8 on the afternoon of the 7th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Cloughey life-boat station in County Down, Mr.
S. C. B. Bryans, that the Dutch coaster Frida Blokzijl of 270 tons was...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended 30th June, 1909
THE machinery of modern civilization is so complicated, and moves, withal, so smoothly and silently, that the majority of people never give a thought to its intricacies, or to the constant effort and strain which the smooth working...
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Robert and Henry
The Life-boat Harriott Forteath was also launched at about 6.30 A.M., on the 20th August, and rescued the crew, consisting of three men, from the fishing coble Robert and Henry, of Whitby, which had stranded on the beach during- a fresh...
Margaret Jane
ESCORT FOR FISHING BOAT IN GALE Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 13th February, 1962, the conditions at the harbour bar were very bad because of heavy seas and the state of the tide. As the local fishing boat Margaret Jane was...
Wellesley
The fishing smack Wellesley, of Scarborough, while making for the harbour at dead low-water, during a gale of wind from the S.E. and a heavy sea, at 7.30 P.M., on the 19th March, took the ground outside the pier and drove on to the beach.<...
Sea King
During a moderate S.E. gale and very heavy sea, on the 3rd January, the steam- trawler Sea King, of Hull, was observed in the offing making signals for a pilot.
The sea was too rough for an ordinary shoreboat to put off,...
Southlands
SOLITARY WATCHMAN RESCUED Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 6.10 in the evening of the 16th of March, 1947, the motor life-boat Crawford and Con- stance Conybeare was launched to a ship on the rocks at St. Just, Falmouth Harbour. A strong westerly gale...
A Fishing Boat
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—On the morning of the 18th of October, 1955, five men put off in a fishing boat to go to Barrahead to ferry sheep to Mingulay, but the weather worsened during the day and their families became anxious. At 4.30...
Oscar
BUDDON NESS, N.B.—At about 11 A.M.
on the 22nd February signal guns were fired from the Lightship, indicating that a vessel was ashore on the South Bank, or in imminent danger. The May Lifeboat proceeded to the spot as soon...
Minnie Coles
On Sunday morning, the 12th November, the schooner Minnie Coles, of Chester, with a cargo of coal from Kuncorn, arrived off Arklow harbour, and was compelled, owing to the heavy seas, to anchor about a mile outside. During the after- noon an...