LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Merry Golden Hind
Margate, Kent. — At 12.46 in the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a motor launch was drifting four miles to the north-east of the lookout, and at 1.23 came another message that she was now flying a...
Covesea and Ocean Swell (1)
Whitehills, Banfisbire, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—About 3.45 in the after- noon of the 18th of October, 1949, theBanff coastguard telephoned the White- hills life-boat station that two fishing vessels bound for Peterhead from Wick —the...
Flamingo, of Stavanger
Longhope, Orkneys, and Wick, Caithness-shire - At 11.27 a.m. on 26th January, 1967, it was learned that a vessel was transmitting a Mayday call off Pentland Skerries. The Longhope life-boat T.G.B. was launched at 11.45 in a strong east by...
Oulton
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—A vessel was observed by the Coastguard to be stranded on the East Hoyle Spit on the morning of the 6th March, and as the weather appeared to be somewhat threatening, and there being a nasty sea on the bank, it was decided...
Falavee
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—Early on the morning of the 1st February, 1938, a fisherman reported distress flares from a vessel ashore on Dhorling sandbank, Davaar Island. She was the coasting steamer Falavee, of Belfast, bound with a cargo of...
Admiral Van Tromp
Fishing vessel aground A DISTRESS CALL asking for lifeboat assistance from the fishing vessel Admiral Van Tromp was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station by Whitby Coastguard at 0302 on Thursday, September 30, 1976; the...
Letters
Abigail revisited Readers of the Winter 2003/04 edition of the Lifeboat may remember a letter from Alan Jones recounting his airlift from the yacht Abigail with a suspected heart attack. He wrote with some embarrassment at eventually being...
Category: Correspondence
H.M. Trawler Loch Hope
NOVEMBER 2ND. - HARTLEPOOL , DURHAM. An aeroplane was reported down in Tees Bay, and at 2.5 in the morning the motor life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) put out to search for her.
She found nothing, but as...
A Fishing Boat (2)
Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 8.15 on the evening of the 3rd August, 1961. the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a local fishing boat from Milford Haven could not be found in the harbour, but that a small boat with two people on...
Skerryvore
Margate, Kent.—At 12.41 in the afternoon of the 21st of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was aground at Foreness Point, and a second message said that a man could be seen in the water. The life- boat, The Lord...