LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Providence
NORTH BERWICK, HADDINGTONSHIRE.
—A telegram from Anstruther was sent to the Coxswain of the Life-boat at North Berwick stating that a fishingboatfishingboat was in great danger off that place, and that the Life-boat...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund was held ; on the 20th ultimo, and was presided j over by the Right Hon. Sir RALPH II. [ KNOX, K.C.B. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon. Secretary, reported that, not- withstanding...
Category: Meetings
Twilight
The lugger Twilight, of Inverness, when bound on the night of 4th October to Lowestoft for the herring fishing, stranded on the South Scroby Sands. There was a strong N.N.E. breeze with a heavy sea at the time, and their signals of distress...
Magpie
On the afternoon of the 24th September the life-boat coxswain saw a small yacht crossing the Outer Sand. A strong S.S.E. gale was making, with a heavy sea and rain squalls. The coxswain kept watch on the yacht. He saw a sail carried away by...
Petite Micheline and Vers le Destin (1)
Arklow, and Wicklow, Co. Wicklow.— At 6.15 on the morning of the 10th of October, 1953, the Valentia Radio Station told the Arklow life-boat station that the French trawlers Petite Micheline and Vers le Destin had wirelessed that they had...
A Boat from a Pilot Vessel
BOYS RESCUED Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.7 a.m. on 2nd January, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a boat from a pilot vessel with two boys on board had broken down, was unlit and drifting up river. At 2.35 the...
A Catamaran (1)
CATAMARAN TOWED IN AFTER CAPSIZE Rhyl, Flintshire. At 5.19 on the afternoon of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report that a yacht had capsized off the marine hydro and that two people were in the...
White Heather
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th of March, 1958, the Orlock coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat taking a relief keeper to Mew Island lighthouse was ashore on rocks at Mew...
Jose Ramon
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 9.15 on the evening of the 29th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from Seven Stones lightvessel that the trawler Jose Ramon of San Sebastian was...
None (2)
St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 9.15 on the evening of the 24th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flashing light giving SOS signals had been seen coming from Skomer Island. At 9.45 the life-boat...