LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ceremonies
Stromness On the afternoon of Thursday August 22, 1985, morning rain had given way to sunshine and the earlier buzz of conversation blending with music from the Salvation Army Band and the movement of people around Stromness harbour was...
Category: Inaugurations
H.M.T. Monimia
FEBRUARY 27TH. - PETERHEAD , ABERDEENSHIRE. At 7.30 A.M. a message was received from the Naval Base,through the coastguard, that H.M.T. Monimia was ashore in South Bay, Peterhead. A S. by E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...
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Boy on rocks FOUR MEMBERS of the 1LB crew were working at Tramore pier, Co. Waterford, close by the boathouse at 7 p.m. on June 28, 1973, when a youth came up, greatly agitated, to tell them that a boy had been trapped on a small rock islet...
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Cut off by tide A LOCAL COBLE alerted Flamborough Coastguard on the afternoon ol Saturday, August 23, 1975; two people were cut off by the tide on the cliff at West Scar. After viewing the site and ruling out any attempt at rescue over the...
A Swim Too Far
A sWim too fAR During the aftermath of Hurricane Gordon, when Ireland was buffeted by extraordinary gales, one woman found herself in grave danger The call came on 21 September 2006. As she cleared the shelter of the harbour and entered...
Category: Articles
Mary Johns
At about 1 a.m. on the 9th April, the Coastguard reported that rockets were being fired from the Tongue Light- Vessel ; the crew of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 were thereupon summoned and the boat was as soon as possible launched. The...
Fishing Cobles
Six of the fishing cobles belong- ing to Berwick and Spittal went to sea on the morning of the 24th January, and when at their lines, were overtaken by a sudden gale from N.E. The Cox- swain launched the Life-boat Matthew Simpson, at the...
Saboo and Lygra
TWO LIFE-BOATS PUT OUT TO YACHT IN GALE Filey, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.
At 1.22 on the afternoon of the 24th June, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary at Filey a message intercepted from the coaster...
Plowman
On the 17th No- vember, the smack Plowman, of Yar- mouth, was seen making signals of distress in Yarmouth Roads during a heavy gale of wind from the N.E. The Duff small life- boat went off through a heavy sea, and after several attempts,...
Dunmore, of London
Before daybreak on the morning of the 28th January the Life-boat Mary Stirling was launched in reply to signals of distress exhibited by the barque Dunmore, of London, bound from London to New Zealand, which ran on shore near Pevensey...