LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Golden Spray
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 5.50 p.m. on loth October, 1965, the coastguard reported that a message had been received from the Cromer coastguard that a vessel was in trouble two miles southwest of Lynn Well lightvessel. The lifeboat Charles...
Why Worry
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 12.11 on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Why Worry, with a crew of two, appeared to have broken down off Trimingham, four miles south-east of Cromer. At...
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Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 4.38 on the afternoon of the 21st May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over a cliff. Ten minutes later, when the life- boat Jeanie put to sea, with the boarding boat in...
Fishing Boats
Anstruther, Fife - At 12.30 p.m. on 27th February, 1967, it was seen that the local fishing fleet was standing off the harbour awaiting the tide to flood sufficiently in order to enter. There was a gale force southerly wind with a very heavy...
Good Cheer and Other Cobles
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — While the local fishing fleet was at sea in the early morning of the 29th of November, 1950.
the wind increased from the north- north-west until by nine o'clock it was blowing a gale, causing a...
A Sailing Dinghy
Capsize AFTER CAPSIZING several times offLligwy Beach on Sunday, July 18, the crew of a sailing dinghy were finally unable to right their boat and were drifting seawards.
HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of...
Wind
Poole, Dorset - At 3.45 a.m. on 17th November, 1968, it was learnt that flares had been seen near the training bank outside the harbour.
The life-boat Bassett Green slipped her moorings at 4.5 in a fresh east north easterly...
Duck, of Union Hall, Skibbereen
MAY 16TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.
At 8.43 at night it was reported from Glandore that the fishing boat Duck, of Union Hall, Skibbereen, which had put out from Glandore, had not returned from fishing off Galley Head. A...
Sisters
DROGHKDA.—On the 10th January the No. 2 Life-boat, John Suiter Charley, of this station, was launched to the assistance of the barque Sisters, of Sunderland, which vessel being driven in on the lee-shore of Bettystown strand came in contact...
Gleaner, of Milford
On the 30th October, at 3 P.M., the schooner Gleaner, of Milford, •was "wrecked beneath Clay Castle, near the entrance of Youghal Harbour. It was blowing a heavy gale at S. The Life-boat William Beckett of Leeds was launched at 3.45,...