LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Caribia
MARCH 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. The Dutch motor vessel Caribia, which had gone ashore on the Scroby Sands, and to the help of which both the Caister and Gorleston life-boats had been launched on the 26th and 27th of...
A Cheer for the Life-Boat
" SIR you observe that ?" we asked, one autumnal evening in the year of grace and so forth, when, with a score of others, we were peering into the darkness from the weather-side of Ratnsgate Pier.
'•What, sir...
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The Auxiliary Barge Pudge
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 5.24 on the afternoon of the 24th of October, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the auxiliary barge Pudge, of London, which had a crew of two, had gone aground half a mile south of Saltfleet Haven. The...
Sea Fox (2)
Search success AT 1820 ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1987, Tyne Tees Coastguards were alerted by the mother of one of two men aboard the Hartlepool-based fishing boat Sea Fox that the vessel was six hours overdue at the east coast...
The S.S. Rannoch
CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—The Coastguard watchman haying reported a steamer on the North Rock on the 7th April, 1897, the Life-boat Faith was launched at 5.30 A.M., and prooeeding to the vessel fonnd her to be the s.s. Rannoch, of and from Glasgow...
Lapwing
On the 21st May it was reported that a schooner, which proved to be the Lapwing, of Arklow, bound from Dublin for Wexford with a cargo of maize, was at anchor off the bar in a sinking condition, having struck on the Blackwater Bank.
Farmers stranded
12 February: Clifden Four experienced fish farmers were working at the mouth of Clifden Bay in Galway when a storm left them stranded and they called for assistance. The Clifden inshore lifeboat rode through huge...
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Dunaine and Carmel
TUG SAVED RHYL, Flintshire, life-boat was told on 28th June, 1971, that a vessel was in difficulties off Llandulas and in danger of being washed ashore.
The life-boat Har Lil was launched at 12.35 p.m.
in...
Delightful (2)
COXSWAIN'S SONS RESCUED Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys, and Wick, and Thurso, Caithness- shire. At 5.30 p.m. on I7th December, 1963, the coastguard told the Longhope honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Pentland...
A Steam Drifter
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—20th October, 1937. A steam drifter had stranded on the North Beach, but her crew landed in their small boat.—Rewards, £11 16s..