LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Covesea and Ocean Swell
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...
Pigganin
Swanage, Dorset - At 11.13 a.m. on 14th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white yacht was in difficulties with a broken rudder 15 miles off Anvil point. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 11.32 in a...
Oberon of Liverpool
On the 1st of April the barque Oberon, of Liverpool, ran ashore on the Causeway Bank in Cardigan Bay. She was seen from Portmadoc, and a large boat was also observed at a great distance from the land, apparently full of people. The Portmadoc...
An Aeroplane and H.M.S.. Patia
APRIL 28TH. - BOULMER, AND AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of Sunday, 27th April, it was learned at Boulmer that a German aeroplane had attacked a naval vessel and that the aeroplane had been brought down in flames. The coxswain and...
Juliet, of Greenock
On the 29th December, intelligence was received here that a vessel was anchored at the entrance of the harbour, near Hell Bay, with an en- sign flying half-mast high. The wind was W.S.W., blowing a very strong gale. The Padstow life-boat was...
Usko
1 It was reported at about 6.30 A,M. on the 27th November that a vessel was ashore on the Goodwin Sands.
A fresh W.N.W. breeze was blowing at the time. The Life-boat Civil Service No. 4 at once put off, and found the...
Catarina
ILFRACOMBE.—On the morning of the 29th December, the Go-Operator No. 2 Life-boat was launched, a message having been received at about half-past nine stating that a vessel, which proved to be the barque Catarina, of Savona, was in distress...
Widnes
On the 6th November, the Mary Jane Gould Life-boat put off to the assistance of the steam flat Widnes, of Liverpool, which showed a signal of distress during a strong- breeze from the S.E., and a roughsea, while at anchor off Llanddulas. On...
Axel
COURTOWN.—It having been reported that a barque was flying signals of distress, the Life-boat Three Sisters put off at 8 A.M. on the 30th September, in strong N.E. breeze and a moderate sea.
On reaching the vessel, which...
Emma
On 4th December at 12.30 P.M. the Motor Life- boat Mary Scott was launched to the help of the motor fishing boat Emma, of Southwold, with three men on board, which had been seen by the Coastguard to be flying a distress signal about one mile...