LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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On service in thick fog without radar A service to a yacht, unsure of its position in very dense fog and running low on fuel off Arran was conducted by the Campeltown lifeboat, with support from the Arran inshore lifeboat, in poor visibility...
The S.S. Windsor Castle
Soon after i 2 A.M. on the 22nd July the Coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was ! aroused and informed that signal guns 1 were being fired by the St. Nicholas Light-vessel. The crew were assembled I and the boat launched. ...
Friargate
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 12.16 early on the morning of the llth of February, 1955, the Flamborough Head coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Friargate, of Hull, had wirelessed that she had run on the rocks at Flam- borough Head...
The Screw Steamer Alexandra, of London
Early on the morning of the 9th February, a rocket was seen from | the end of the Breakwater, thrown in an easterly direction, denoting a vessel re- quiring assistance. As the weather was comparatively fine at the time the pilots' and...
Radio Caroline
Ramsey, Isle of Man - At n p.m. on 22nd March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had intercepted a message from the wireless transmitting station Radio Caroline in Ramsey Bay that there was an injured man on...
William Berry
At 8.45 A.M. on the 15th March, when the wind was blowing a whole gale from S.W., with a very heavy sea running, the schooner William Berry broke from her moorings and commenced to drift to the shore on the opposite side of the bay, which is...
Vim
Teesmouth, Yorkshire - At 10.40 p.m. on 7th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor launch Vim, which had left the Tees at 3 p.m. to take stores to the tankerPrimbro anchored in Tees bay, had neither...
HERE and THERE.
Frances Scott, honorary secretary of the Bournemouth branch, sailed to Swanage in his yacht Eulali to attend that station's centenary. On the return passage, when entering Poole Harbour, he saw a 14' skiff, Addio, which had capsized,...
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Fishing Cobles
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—On the 1st July a gale from E.S.E. sprang up at about 4 A.M. Seven fishing cobles had left about four hours previously for the fishing-ground, which is about 15 miles from the shore,...
Pentland Swell
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 6.23 on the morning of the 27th of March, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishjng vessel had been seen approaching Wick from the south- east, although the harbour had been closed to shipping...