LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
SHERINGHAM.—A rough sea sprung up on the evening of the 16th August, and about fifteen or twenty fishing-boats were placed in danger. At 5,15 the Life-boat William Bennett was launched, eight minutes sufficing to get her afloat, took the...
Fishing Cobles
On the morning of the 18th January, the coxswain reported that seven of the local motor fishing cobles were at sea and in danger owing to the very heavy sea. The pulling and sailing life-boat Arthur R. Dawes was launched at 9.15 A.M. and...
Voorwaarts
In response i| to a telephone message at 3.45 P.M. on ! the 17th January, stating that a vessel | was ashore at Sizewell with her crew in the rigging, the No. 1 Life-boat Alfred Gorry was launched. She found the schooner Voorwaarts, of...
Dronning Sophie
RHOSCOLYN, ANGLESEY..—The Norwegian barque Dronning Sophie was seen to be in distress in Carnarvon Bay, and fast drifting to leeward, while the wind was blowing a whole gale from the N.W., and a very heavy sea was running, on the 7th October...
An Airliner
Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.
Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...
A Small Boat
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 2.10 P.M. on the 3rd September the bowman saw a small boat, with two boys onboard, capsize about five hundred yards from the quay. A fresh west breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The life-boat motor mechanic...
Anastassios Pateras
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; Cloughey, and Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 11.15 A.M., on the 17th November, 1937, the Clogher Head motor life-boat Mary Ann Blunt was launched in an easterly gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, to search for a vessel...
Anastassios Pateras (2)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; Cloughey, and Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 11.15 A.M., on the 17th November, 1937, the Clogher Head motor life-boat Mary Ann Blunt was launched in an easterly gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, to search for a vessel...
Coxswain George Leng
COXSWAIN GEORGE LENG of Flam- borough died on the 6th of March, 1955, at the age of 75. He served as coxswain for 14 years, retiring at the end of 1945. He had previously served for more than 11 years as bowman.
In 1937 he...
Category: Obituaries
Ling and Cabin Cruiser Dorella
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 21st of October, 1949, news was received from Bor- deaux, three miles north of St. Peter Port, that a yacht, with a cabin cruiser in tow, was in difficulties, being carried astern by...