LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rapid
A few minutes after 8 P.M. on the 8th January the Coastguard reported that distress sig- nals were being fired from the St.
Nicholas Light-vessel, and without delay the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched. They found the...
Trawlers Ben Bheula and Cyelse
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 10.40 in the morning of the llth of March, 1949, the Duntulm coastguard reported that the Fleetwood steam trawler Ben Bheula was leaking and in need of help two miles east of Castlebay, and the life-boat...
Polly Johnson and Scarron
Humber, Yorkshire. — During the afternoon of the 27th August the Mablethorpe coastguard reported,through the Spurn Point signal station, that two trawlers had been in collision ten miles north of the Humber and that one of them was sinking....
Lifeboat Services
TANKER FIRE VISIBLE FROM FIVE MILES AWAY Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and...
Category: Services
Aloma (2)
Portrush, Co. Antrim; Campbeltown, Argyllshire; and Donaghadee, Co. Down.
—On the morning of the 12th of July, 1952, a man, together with his wife and two sons, were cruising off the coast of County Antrim in the...
Patronita
Hastings, Sussex. At 9.50 on the morning of the 4th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yawl Patronita of Portsmouth needed help eight miles south-east of Hastings. This informa- tion had been received...
Sterry and Robert Henry
The same Life-boat was launched about 11.15 P.M., on the 9th March, inresponse to flares shown in Margate Roads by the steam launch Sterry, of Lowestoft, bound to Penzance with coal, which was found riding to her anchor in about four fathoms...
District Conferences
South-West of England.
AT this conference delegates from twenty-two branches and Ladies' Life- boat Guilds in Cornwall, Devonshire and Somerset met at Plymouth on the 22nd March. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the...
Category: Meetings
Oberon
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the 28th August three men, with two small boys and a boatman, put out from Totland Bay in the motor launch Oberon to go fishing. The boat's engine broke down and she drifted on to Shingle Bank, which is in an...
A Boat (1)
LONG SEARCH FOR UNLIT BOAT Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 10.10 on the evening of Tuesday the 20th of August, 1963, what appeared to be burning material was seen a number of times about half a mile off shore and two...