LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Duke of Abercorn
The pas- senger steamer Duke of Abercorn, of Dublin, when returning from Bray Regatta on the evening of the 10th August stranded in a dense fog on the south-west corner of Dalkey Island.
The information of the accident was...
Lonsdale
The Coxswain of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave was called by a boatman in the early morning of the 2nd May, as the South Goodwin Light-vessel was firing signals. He at once proceeded to the beach, and seeing a large ship in dangerous...
Oneida
On the 24th April signals of distress were shown by the yawl Oneida, of Sennen Cove, which had left Padstow in the morning intending to pick up her nets which she had left in the bay on the previous evening. When she started, the wind was...
Giles Lang
FENIT (TRALEE BAY).—On the evening of the 24th April the schooner Giles Lang, of St. Ives, bound from Galway for Cardiff, laden with hay, which had put into Fenit from stress of weather, dragged her anchor and sent up signals of distress;...
Malvoisin
Shortly before 10 A.M. on the 18th March a telephone message was received by the Harwich Coastguard reporting that a vessel, with her sails blown away, was driving east of Woodbridge Haven, and showing signals of distress. The steam Life-...
Renown
The sprit-sail barge Renoivn, of London, whilst bound ' for Ipswich, on the 30th December, grounded on the West Gunfleet Sands.
[ As a moderate S.W. gale was blowing, and the sea was heavy, the Motor Life- boat Albert...
An Aeroplane
On 14th January a man from Dinmor Quarry saw an aeroplane apparently nose-dive either on to Puffin Island or into the sea, and reported it to the Coastguard, who notified the Life-boat Station.
This was at 3.30 P.M. The...
Ireland's Eye
AGROUND IN DENSE FOG Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 1.47 in the morning of the 7th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported a steam trawler aground near the end of the North Pier. There was a dense fog with a light westerly wind and a calm sea. The...
Susan Vittery
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 3.10 in the afternoon of the 2nd of September, 1949, the Formby coastguard reported that there appeared to be a three- masted schooner on the revetment, abreast of C.13 buoy River...
An Open Boat
Montrose, Angus.—On the afternoon of the 22nd May three officers from the R.A.F. Training School were thrown into the sea by the swamping of their open boat when they were trying to cross the bar at the entrance to the River Southesk. The...