LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nicolaou Virginia
MARCH 27TH - 29TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. In the early morning of the 27th the Greek steamer Nicolaou Virginia, bound from Bahia Blanca to Glasgow with a cargo of grain, ran ashore on the rocks at Flimston Head and was badly...
In Fog Off Chesil Beach
ON the evening of the 2nd of Apfil a strong south-westerly wind was blowing at Weymouth. The sea was rough; there was a heavy driving rain; there were dense banks of fog. At a quarter past six the coastguard telephoned to the honorary...
Category: Services
Island Maid and Angele
On the after- noon of 12th November, two vessels, the schooner Island Maid, of Belfast, and the brigantine Angele, of Brest, while endeavouring to enter Padstow Harbour, in a strong "W.N.W. gale accompanied by a heavy sea, struck on the...
Bosphorus
Cromer, Norfolk.—About 6.30 in the evening of the 20th of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Bosphorus, of Oslo, of 2,111 tons, bound for Hull from Palestine, with a cargo of oranges and thirty-seven on board,...
Fishing Boats
The No. 2 Life-boat Bessie Webster was launched at 10.30 A.M. on the 19th April to the assistance of eight Ferryden fishing-boats, each having a crew of four men on board, which had gone out fishing during fine weather earlier in the morning...
Two Fishing Boats
Shortly after 10 A.M. on the 20th March a telephone message was received from Gourdon intimating that a very heavy sea was running at the harbour mouth, and that the fishing-boats had been warned not to attempt to come in, and, further, that...
Fishing Cobles
At 4 A.M. on the 21st March all the cobles put to t>ea for the purpose of hauling their crab pots.
At 7 A.M. the wind freshened, and it was considered advisable to launch the Life-boat Hollon the Third to their...
Colette
Margate, Kent - At 10.14 p.m. on 15th April, 1968, it was reported that a cabin cruiser was aground on the rocks three-quarters of a mile from Foreness point. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 10.30 in a...
French Fishing Vessels
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.19 on the evening of the 18th June, 1951, the coxswain reported that a French fish- ing vessel had gone on the Brake Sands. At 5.24 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings. The sea...
Inchcolm
The Life-boat William Arthur Millward was called out shortly after nine in the morning on the 21st August to a vessel which had stranded on the Peffer Sands, some miles westward of Dunbar. The Life-boat was promptly launched, not without...