LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (7)
JANUARY 7TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At the request of the naval authorities the life-boat went to a spot where a Coastal Command aeroplane was reported to be circling over either an aeroplane or bodies in the sea, but she...
None (4)
FATHER AND SON At 5.25 p.m. on 5th September, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a boy was reported to be stranded on Renney rocks but that further investigation was necessary. At 5.36 the message was confirmed. It was one hour...
Beaver
Workington, Cumberland. At one o'clock early on the morning of the 24th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Beaver, which had sailed from Maryport the morning before, had not...
Bess
Barrow, Lancashire. — On the morn- ing of the 31st of July, 1949, a strong west-south-west breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. At 5.13 the Walney coastguard reported that a trawler had spoken to a motor yacht west of More- cambe Bay...
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OCTOBER 1ST. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY. Reports had been received that faint SOS calls had been heard and a patch of oil had been seen, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Rhyl, £16 14s. ; Beaumaris, £16...
Cedarine, of Burmuda
At 3'40 A.M. on the 2nd April, the barque Cedarine, of Bermuda, stranded near Brighstone Grange, with 234 persons on board, 191 of whom were convicts, whose period of punishment at Bermuda had ex- pired. The Brighstone Grange life-boat...
The S.S. Matrix
— The s.s.
Magrix, of Hull, was at anchor off Spurn in a whole W. gale, with a rough sea, on the 19th October. At 11.40 A.M. she began to drift and went ashore on the Point. She was on a dead lee shore with the seas...
Two Steamers
21st December. Two steamers had been in collision, but did not need help.—Rewards, Clacton, £19 5s. 3d; Walton, £26 15s. 6d..
Fishing Boats
PETERHEAD.—On the 3rd August the Peterhead Life-boat was launched, and was employed for many hours in assisting fishing vessels which, during a storm, were obliged to run for Peterhead Harbour.
The crew from one fishing...
Aberlemno
ILFRACOMBE.—On the 2nd April the Life-boat Co-Operator No. 2 was called out in squally weather to the assistance of the barque Aberlemno, of Swansea, coal laden from Barry, which had stranded on a point called Egg Bock, W. of Combmartin, in...