LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kinnaird Head and Araby
DECEMBER 27TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 3 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a ship was sinking near the boom defence, and at 3.25 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched. A light...
Dorothy and Mary
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress were seen in the bay at 8.30 P.M. on the llth December during a very heavy gale from the W.N.W. The Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off and found the schooner Dorothy and Mary, of Carnarvon, coal laden from...
An Aeroplane
AEROPLANE CRASHED Lerwick, Shetlands—At 12.9 in the morning of January 3rd, 1947, an aero- plane could be heard flying round the town, and it dropped red flares. A strong southerly breeze was blowing, causing a rough sea, and as it appeared...
An Aeroplane (14)
MAY 1 3TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At about 4.45 P.M. information was received that an aeroplane had come down in the sea off Blakeney Point. The weather was fine with a strong S.W. breeze and a choppy sea. An exercise of...
Tradesman and Masterman
Penlee, Cornwall.—About one o'clock on the afternoon of the llth of Novem- ber, 1950, the coastguard reported an S.O.S. message from the tug Tradesman.
The tug Masterman, of Falmouth, at anchor in Mounts Bay with a crew...
Janet and Tempter
NORTH DEAL.—On the morning of the 27th March rockets and guns were fired by the Gull Lightship and large flares were burnt by a vessel in the direction of the Brake sand. The Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 5 o'clock, a...
Dinghies and Viveuse
Swanage, Dorset - At 1.58 p.m. on 2Oth May, 1967, a message was received that a dinghy was in need of assistance off Poole Bar buoy. Later two other dinghies were reported in trouble. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 2.30 in a fresh south...
Pluto and another Steamer
JANUARY 23RD. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. The Norwegian steamer Pluto and another steamer had been mined, but fishing boats nearby picked up the crews of both steamers. - Rewards, £14 18s.
(See North...
Trained and ready
Volunteers in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, are running a trial RNLI lifeboat station following the closure of the independent lifeboat service in the town. The crew took part in full RNLI training before the lifeboat went operational in the...
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Mornington, Susannah and Iris
LOWESTOFT.—During a heavy gale from the N.E., on the 28th October, several shipwrecks, with loss of life, took place off Lowestoft. At about 11 P.M. the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat, after much regrettable delay and difficulty, was launched and...