LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Montauban (1)
JANUARY 9TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE, AND HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. At about 5 A.M. information was received through the Cullercoats Wireless Station that a vessel was in distress. The weather was calm and fine, but cold. The motor life-boat Louisa...
Frederick Carel (1)
RAMSGATE and DEAL. — Signals were made by the Goodwin and Gull lightships, during a fresh S.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 31st of October.
At the same time a large flare was seen in the direction of the...
Fishing Boats (1)
On the morning of the llth February the Ferryden fleet of fishing boats, about fifty in number, left Montrose for the fishing grounds, the wind blowing then a moderate breeze from the N. About 11 o'clock the wind increased, and a heavy...
Isabel
At about 9.15 A.M.
on 3rd April the Coxswain saw a vessel flying signals to the N.N.E. of the Tongue Light Vessel. A light S.S.W. wind was blowing and the sea was smooth, but as it was thought that help was needed the Motor...
Nelly Fleming
On the afternoon of the 8th January, the Avonmouth haven master telephoned that a ship had gone aground on the Welsh Hook, seven cables N.W. by W.
of the Welsh Hook Buoy, and was lying in a dangerous position. A fresh...
None (18)
SEVEN CHILDREN ON BOARD Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At i.oo p.m.
on 24th August, 1965, a lo-foot fibreglass dinghy left Ballycotton for Garryvoe Strand with a man and seven children on board. The wind was then south-west force 3...
Vagabond
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 2.30 on the after- noon of the 22nd of October, 1955, two boys told the coxswain that a motor boat was in difficulties near the rocks off Ballast Bank. Ten minutes later the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out....
A Naval Landing Craft (1)
NOVEMBER 17TH.. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 9.5 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a naval landing craft between Hastings and Fairlight was making bad weather. Seventeen minutes later he reported distress signals from...
Hilda and Royal Charter
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 8.40 A.M. on the 28th February, as it had been reported that the local motor fishing coble Hilda was at sea, and though the breeze was light there was a very rough...
Ferndene
Longhope, Orkneys. At 3.32 p.m. on 23rd July, 1965, the motor vessel Ferndene of Sunderland was reported to have developed a dangerous list. She was off the north coast of Stroma island and her crew of seven had inflated a life-raft in...