LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mabel
In a strong south-easterly gale, on 26th October, the ketch Mabel, of Bideford, went ashore on the Dogger Bank, in Wexford Bay. The vessel, which was loaded with salt, was bound from Gloucester to Wexford. The casualty occurred soon after...
Seaham
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.57 in the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a Dutch motor vessel was in distress twelve miles east-south-east of Lowes- toft. • She was listing heavily. At 4.15 the life-boat...
Ketty et Michou
FRENCH TRAWLER AIDED St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. A doctor rang the coxswain at 10 p.m. on 6th October, 1963, stating that he had heard from the Penzance Port Medical Authority that a French trawler, Ketty et Michou, was steaming at full...
Flumm 2
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.8 on the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say a small boat with two people on board was in difficulties near the Brooklands groyne, Jay wick. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
A French Trawler (1)
Sennen Cove, Cornwall; and St.
Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 8.12 on the evening of the 28th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the Sennen Cove honorary secretary that the Southern Rescue Coordination Centre at Ply- mouth...
An Aeroplane (27)
MARCH 25TH - 26TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. SOS flashes had been seen by the coastguard about six miles east of Cilan Head on the evening of March 25th, and at 9.45 the Pwllheli motor life-boat Ministre...
Jacob Rauers
The barque Jacob Rauers, of Gothenburg, whilst bound from that port to Grangemouth with a cargo of spars and pit-props, stranded on the rocks near the " Needle Eye," at Marshall Meadows, on the 29th...
Spanker
POBTMADOC, NOETH WALES.—At about 11.30 P.M., on the 6th of February, the Life-boat John Ashbury was launched, signals having been seen in the bay, during a strong S.S.W. wind and a heavy sea. She went in the direction of the light, which at...
Jane Mary Jane, Cornelia and Ynys Lochtyn
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—On the morning of the 15th of September, 1956, a heavy storm came up from the south-east. The majority of the fish- ing boats which were at sea had re- turned to harbour, but it was reported that the fishing...
Firefly
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — At 7 o'clock in the morning of the 17th of July, 1948, the Totland coastguard telephoned that the British steamer Royal Sovereign had reported that she had in tow the motor yacht Firefly, of St....