LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pomona, of Dundalk
On the 21st February, the same Life- I boat went out to the brigantine Pomona, '• of Dundalk, which, during a gale from the N.E., was seen driving down Channel in a disabled state and with a flag of : distress flying. The...
Progress
LLANDUDNO, CARNARVONSHIRE.—At 4 o'clock in the afternoon on the 12th February, a message was received from the Orme's Head Light House that a schooner was displaying signals of distress about three miles off in a northwesterly...
A Steamer
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE. The No.
'2 Life-boat, Marianne Atherstone, performed an excellent service on the 26th March, resulting in the saving of four lives. About 5 o'clock a steamer was seen approaching the harbour,...
A Metal Dinghy
Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd of Septem- ber, 1955, the life-boat motor mechanic saw through a telescope three men in a metal dinghy. They had put off to try to recover a rubber dinghy, which was drifting out...
Lieut. Keppel H. Foote, R.N.
Lieut. Keppel H. Foote, R.N.. who died on 6th May at the age of eighty- five, had spent twenty-nine years of his life in the service of the Institu- tion. Born in 1850, he entered the navy in 1863, and served in it for eighteen years....
Category: Obituaries
Hjertness
GROOMSPORT, Co. DOWN. — Shortly after 9 A.M. the Coastguard reported that a barque about a mileN-W. of Copeland Islands was signalling for "immediate assistance." The Coxswain assembled his crew and launched the Life-boat Chapman....
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING NAIRN, MORAYSHIRE. About 11.15 on the night of the 13th of November, 1945, an R.A.F. Warwick aeroplane was seen by the Lossiemouth coastguard to crash in the sea in flames, six to eight miles in a north-easterly direction...
Category: Services
Sol
Troon, Ayrshire. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 15th of March, 1961, the harbour master at Ardrossan in- formed the honorary secretary that the Liberian tanker Sol of Monrovia was aground one mile south of Ardrossan.
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A Sailboard
Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at 1628 and at 1635...
Peterborough Trader
Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 11.30 P.M. on the 20th January, 1939, the lifeboat watchman reported a vessel ashore on the Middle Binks. She was the motor vessel Peterborough Trader, of Wisbech, bound for the Humber. A light, variable, breeze...