LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Diloma
CHINESE SEAMEN RESCUED Sundeiiand, Durham.—At 1.40 in the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1947, the Sunderland coastguard telephoned that the Seaham coastguard had re- ported that the motor vessel Diloma, a tanker, had struck submerged...
Harry Richardson
Caister, Norfolk. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1960, the life-boat mechanic noticed a vessel apparently aground on the north end of Scroby Sands. There was a moderate south-easterly wind and sea, and the tide...
Frederick T. Everard
DOCTOR TREATS INJURED MEN IN LIFE-BOAT Anstruther, Fife. At 3.1 on the afternoon of the 17th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Frederick T. Everard of London had two injured men on board who...
Carency
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 12.40 early on the morning of the 29th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on the north side of Noss Head. At one o'clock the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched in a slight...
Buccaboo
Walmer, Kent.—At 7.34 in the morn- ing of the 4th of September, 1951, the East Goodwin Lightvessel wire- lessed that the crew of three of the motor yacht Buccaboo, one of them injured, had made fast to the light- vessel in the yacht's...
Donside
FIVE ATTEMPTS TO REFLOAT GROUNDED M.F.V.
Stromness, Orkneys. At 9.25 on the evening of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Kirkwall coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Donside of Aberdeen...
Garibaldi J.
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 10.15 a-m- on 15th December, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tug Kendall, towing the inshore fishing vessel Garibaldi J. from Rotterdam to Lowestoft, had run aground on the Newcombe...
A Speed Boat (3)
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 4.3 p.m. on 20th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speedboat had capsized off Beadnell. At 4.9 the inshore rescue boat launched in a gentle, gusting to...
An Aeroplane (3)
JANUARY 30TH - 1ST FEBRUARY. SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, and with the help of fifty soldiers the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 12.6 P.M.
A light S.W. wind was...
Phoenix, Admiral, Mary, James,and Mary Anne
THURSO, N.B.—On the evening of the 7th March, the wind blew a heavy gale here from the N.N.W. to N.W., and the harbour master and Custom House officer at Scrabster were apprehensive that if the sea got heavier as the night advanced, the...