LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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At 12.30 A.M.
on the 5th September, during a whole N.E. gale with very heavy sea, it was reported to the Coxswain of the No. 2 Life-boat Leicester that a vessel was ashore on the North Bank. The Life- boat was launched and...
Grace Darling
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. — What was reported locally as " a most admirable service, quickly and gallantly rendered," was that performed by the new Life-boat on this station—the Mary Isabella—on the 16th September. On the afternoon of...
Fishing Boats (2)
GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.—At 9 A.M. on the 19th March some of the fishing fleet which had been overtaken by a gale were seen approaching the harbour. A very heavy sea was breaking on the bar, and it was therefore thought desirable that the Life-boat...
Arion
SUNDERLAND, SOUTH OUTLET. While a whole gale was blowing from E.N.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, snow and hail, on the 26th March, the threemasted schooner Arion, of Bremerhaven, laden with coal, stranded on Hendon Beach and became a...
Girl Evelyn
DESTROYED BY HEAVY SEAS Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 8.53 on the night of the 2nd of November, 1947, the coast- guard reported a distress flare seen off the harbour and it was thought that the motor fishing boat Girl Evelyn, of Deganwy, known to be...
St. Agnes No. 7.
REFLOATING A TRAWLER Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 6.30 in the evening of the 12th of December, 1947, the coastguard reported that a vessel was aground off the north end of the promenade, but was not making . signals of distress. A light...
Isallt
FIVE LIVES LOST Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 4.35 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1947, the Coast Life Saving Service reported a vessel in distress off Bally- money, Co. Wexford, about ten miles by sea from Arklow, and the motor life-boat...
Plough
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.24 in the morning of the 10th of April, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the East Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a boat drifting to the north-east, and at •2.40 the motor life-boat Prudential was launched in a...
Abide
Way, Inner Hebrides.—At 4.45 in the morning of the 10th of September, 1948, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned that the Portpatrick radio station had reported the steam drifter Abide, of Peterhead, bound for the Clyde, aground in the Sound...
A Small Boat (1)
Maryport, Cumberland.—At 6.35 in the evening of the 12th of November, 1948, it was reported that the life-boat bowman had gone fishing to the north in a small boat and had not returned.
A strong, squally wind was blowing...