LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maggie
CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—On the 10th August the schooner Maggie, of Ardrossan, bound from Connah's Quay for Swansea with a cargo of bricks, stranded on the Platters Bocks, near the Skerries, during squally weather. The crew, five in number, who...
Fishing Boats (5)
On the 10th May the fishing-boats were again in much danger, in consequence of having been overtaken by stormy weather.
The Life-boat put off to help them, and remained by them until they had entered the harbour. One boat,...
Fishing Boats
On the morning of the 6th May the Bridlington honorary secretary telephoned for a life-boat to stand by the Bridlington fishing boats, as the weather was very bad and the Bridlington motor life- boat was off service for overhaul. A moderate...
Fishing Boats (1)
Early on the 2nd December eleven fishing boats put out to fish in moderate weather. Later the wind and sea rose, and as there would be great risk to the boats as they came in, the motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was launched at 11.10 A...
Sethon
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 7.50 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1958, a message was received from the coast- guard that the steam trawler Sethon of Fleetwood was in difficulties at Church Bay, Rathlin. At 8.10 the life-boat Lady Scott...
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal.— On the morning of the 18th of September, 1950, a girl was suddenly taken very ill, needing immediate hospital treatment.
It was very stormy, and no small boat could go to the mainland in...
A Canoe
Mallaig, Inner Hebrides.—The motor life-boat Sir Arthur Rose left her moor- ings at 6.30 in the evening of the 21st of March, 1948, in a south-west gale with a rough sea, to the help of a canoe.
She found her on the beach....
Britannia
Aith, Shetlands.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1954, the Lerwick coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing boat Britannia, of Lerwick, with a crew of five, had broken down in Papa Sound off Sand- ness. At 12.58 the...
New Boat-House for Rhyl
THE new life-boat house at Rhyl was formally opened by the Countess Howe at a ceremony on the 27th of June, 1956. Lord Langford, vice-president of the Rhyl branch, wras in the chair.
Earl Howe, Chairman of the Commit- tee...
Category: Inaugurations
Fishing Boats
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — At 6.10 on the morning of the 8th of June, 1956, the coxswain reported that four local fish- ing boats were returning to the harbour in a heavy sea. A west-north-westerly gale was blowing, and the tide was ebbing....