LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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MARCH 2ND. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 1.55 P.M. a small white mast with a flag was seen about six or seven miles E. N.E. of the life-boat station. It was thought to be a raft with people on board.
A light...
St. Anne
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 8.20 on the morning of the 29th of November, 1959, a watchman on board the navigation barge moored off Lytham told the honorary secretary that a pas- sing vessel had reported that the pilot cutter St....
Terrible Twins
Caister, Norfolk. At 9.35 on the morning of the llth of May, 1958, the motor mechanic saw a small ship's boat, which had broken down with engine trouble north of Caister Elbow buoy.
Ten minutes later the life-boat Jose...
The Kish Lightship
Kingstown, Co. Dublin.—The motor life-boat Dunleary -was launched at 3.45 A.M. on the 19th March in answer to distress sigpals from the Kish lightship in Dublin Bay. A moderate to fresh S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
Books
Books Destroyer An anthology of first-hand accounts of the war at sea 1939-1945 Edited by Ian Hawkins Published by Conway Maritime Press ISBN 1844860086 paperback £9.99 Ian Hawkins cleverly blends excerpts from other books on the Second...
Category: Articles
Mystic Tie
ST. DAVID'S.—On the 11th November, at 5 P.M., it was reported that there was vessel stranded on Ramsay Island. The crew of the Life-boat Augusta immediately proceeded to the station, rockets and blue lights were fired, but no answer was...
Antarctic
PBNZANCE.—The wind suddenly shifting from N.E. to W.S.W., on the morning of the 29th March, the barque Antarctic, of Swansea, homeward bound from London, in ballast, and lying windbound in Mount's Bay, became embayed and was in a...
The S.S. Stanlake (1)
MAY 24TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. At 6.15 P.M. it was reported by the coastguard that the firing of rifles or rockets had been heard in Broad Bay. Later a message was received from another source that a vessel was ashore near the...
George Evans
FISHGUAHD, PEMBROKESHIRE. — The Life-boat Appin rendered valuable assistance to the smack George Evans, of Cardigan, on the 18th April. About 3 P.M. a vessel was reported by the Coastguard showing signals of distress, and the Life-boat...
Sethon
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 7.50 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1958, a message was received from the coast- guard that the steam trawler Sethon of Fleetwood was in difficulties at Church Bay, Rathlin. At 8.10 the life-boat Lady Scott...