LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hattie B, of Liverpool
On the 10th Feb- ruary the Courtinacsherry Life-boat, the City of Dublin, rendered assistance to the brigantine Hattie B, of Liverpool, which had got disabled in a gale of wind, and been driven on the "Black Tom" Rock in...
Sarah Ann
Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 9.15 on the morning of the 5th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Sarah Ann was over- due. After further enquiries had been made, the life-boat Gertrude was launched at 10.5...
The Belgian Fishing Boat Anna Maria and Mobeka (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CAMPBELTOWN JANUARY 1 9TH. - CAMPBLE- TOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND P O R T P A T R I C K , W I G T O W N - SHIRE. At seven minutes to eight in the morning a message came from the coastguard at Southend that a ship was...
Johnsons and Rob Roy
Blyth, Northumberland.—At noon on the 10th of December, 1955, the •coastguard rang up to say that a man had reported that he had received a wireless message from the fishing hoat Golden Days. She reported that she was escorting the fishing...
The Sand Hopper Seastone
HOPPER ON FIRE Selsey, Sussex. At 8.43 a.m. on 27th May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the sand hopper Seastone of London had sent a distress message from a position two miles west of the Owers lightvessel,...
Collisions. The "Avalanche" and "Forest."
ANOTHER of those maritime disasters has occurred which only too frequently serve to remind us that travelling on the sea is still attended with greater danger than travelling by land.
This time it is a collision between...
Category: Articles
Weather Charts and Storm Warnings
"STORM -warnings may be considered as the most immediate practical application of weather knowledge." Mr. EGBERT H. SCOTT, Director of the Meteorological Department, so commences the eighth chapter of the admirable work to which he...
Category: Charts
Alethea and the Southern Cross
Howth, Co. Dublin.—During a vacht race on the evening of the 26th of May, 1954, the 5-ton yacht Alethea was dismasted off Portmarnock Strand about two miles from Howth. The yacht Ann Gail wirelessed a distress call for her to Portpatrick...
The S.S. Asse and an Aeroplane
OCT. 17TH. - AMBLE, AND BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched.
A warning of an air-raid had...
The S.S. Asse and an Aeroplane (1)
OCT. 17TH. - AMBLE, AND BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched.
A warning of an air-raid had...