LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Admiralty Register of Wrecks for 1853
IN the Life-boat Journal, No. 11, we gave as one reason for the discontinuance of the register of shipwrecks, on the coasts of the United Kingdom, which we had previously inserted, that a Wreck Register was being compiled at the Admiralty...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (2)
Overdue LATE ON THE EVENING of Thursday June 14, 1979, Fife Police informed Forth Coastguard that a flashing light was being investigated in Largo Bay and that a 9ft dinghy with three anglers on board had been reported...
The S.S. Generton
Margate, Kent.—The S.S. Generton, of Newcastle, a vessel of nearly 5,000 tons bound from South Africa to London was ashore -on the Girdler Sands, twelve miles to the north-west of Margate. Tugs had tried several times to refloat her, but by...
Fishing Cobles (1)
A severe gale having suddenly sprung up on the morning of the 31st October, all the fishing-cobles at once hastened back to port, but at 8.20 the Scarborough Coast- guard reported by telephone that a motor fishing-boat belonging to Scar-...
None (4)
Aitb, Shetlands.—On the evening of the 6th of March, 1947, a doctor at Walls telephoned that he had a patient, a young woman, with acute appendi- citis. Owing to snowdrifts the only open road was from Scalloway to Ler- wick, but there was ho...
Fishing Boats (1)
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 4.40 on the morning of the 10th of November, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that there were four local fishing boats at sea. The weather had deteriorated rapidly and the sky was overcast, with rain....
Ros Airgead
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 8.15 on the morning of the 16th of December, 1960, the honorary secretary was informed by Valentia radio station that the trawler Ros Airgead was drifting five miles west of Bray Head with a defective fuel pipe, and...
Alnair, of Monrovia
Penlee, Cornwall - At 7 p.m. on 5th July, 1966, news was received that there was a sick man on board the Liberian tanker Alnair of Monrovia, which was some distance out. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 4.25 a.m. on 6th July in a...
None (1)
Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the llth of October, 1958, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could be used to convey a child who was seriously ill to Kirkwall hospital. As there was no other boat...
Delphic Eagle, of Monrovia
At 8.45 p.m. on 13th June, 1968, the coxswain learnt that a sick man aboard the m.v. Delphic Eagle, at anchor in Bull anchorage, needed medical assistance. The life-boat City of Bradford HI, with a doctor on board, was launched at 9.20 in a...