LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inlland Rover
Llandudno, with its hillclimbing trams and snowless ski slope, is something of a wonderland. So it may come as no surprise that the lifeboat station is in a rather unusual place and needs a tractor and Land Rover to tow the lifeboats half a...
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Queen, of Youghal
On the 10th February the brigantine Queen, of Youg- hal, was endeavouring to enter this har- bour during a very heavy gale from the N-W, On rounding the pJer-iaad she Jet go an anchor, but the cable parted, and she drifted about a mile...
Mary Henderson
On 19th November only one fishing boat had put out, the Mary Henderson, with three men on board. A moderate S.E.
breeze was blowing with a very heavy swell. As at 1.20p.M. the boat had not returned, and the seas at the...
Lord Wakefield
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—On the 18th December, 1938, at 1.24 P.M., the coastguard reported that the steam trawler Lord Wakefield was making for harbour where there was not sufficient water. A heavy sea was running, with strong S.E. wind...
The Danish Motor Vessel Idalith
DANISH VESSEL ESCORTED INTO HARBOUR Fowey, Cornwall. At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 7th March, 1963, Lloyd's agent at Fowey informed the honorary secretary that a vessel had gone ashore north-east of Par harbour while attempting to...
Waterbaby
At 8.58 a.m. on ist August, 1966, it was felt that, in view of the deteriorating weather conditions, a small yacht was likely to find herself in difficulties in Rye bay. The life-boat crew assembled and stood by. At the request of the...
Wear
WHITBY.—At about 5.30 P.M., on the 3rd of May, the sloop Wear, of Sunderland, bound from Hartlepool for Walcott with coal, while attempting to enter the harbonr in a very heavy sea, missed the entrance, became unmanageable, drifted into the...
Resolute
On the 8th April the Ketch Resolute of Newcastle-on-Tyne with four men on board stranded while attempt- ing to enter North Sunderland Harbour during a violent N.W. gale. When the vessel struck, a local coble proceeded to her assistance with...
The S.S. Cedarwood
The s.s. Cedarwood, of Middlesbrough, whilst bound from Grimsby to Hayle with a cargo of coal, ran ashore on the Hayle Bar when attempting to enter the harbour on the 23rd December. Signals of distress were made, and the Life-boat Admiral...
Lindfar
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—During the morning of the 25th of March, 1955, a wireless message was heard from the fishing boat Lindfar, of Eyemouth, that she was returning to Eyemouth, as a member of her crew had been badly injured by a winch....