LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shamrock
AUGUST 31ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
During the afternoon news was received that a rowing boat was showing signals of distress a mile east of Colwyn Bay Pier, and that no motor boat was available there. A strong S.W....
Kingfisher, Maureen and Good Cheer
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of April, 1947, an easterly gale was blowing, with squalls of sleet, and heavy seas were breaking across the bay and harbour entrance.
Three local cobles, Kingfisher,...
Speedwell
New Brighton, Cheshire. — On the morning of the 10th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Speedwell, with the life-boat's second coxswain and a life- boatman on board, had gone out.
On the following morning, as she had not...
Mouse
On the i llth February, at 3.40 P.M., the Coast- guard reported that signals of distress had been hoisted on the ketch Mouse, of Cardigan, which had been lying at anchor off Dinas Head. It transpired that the inset of the current caused the...
the Silver Cloud
Coverack, Cornwall.—On the 22nd September a fisherman took three visitors out fishing in his motor launch, the Silver Cloud, of Coverack. They were expected back by seven in the evening, but as they had not returned by midnight, and anxiety...
The S.S. Stellatus
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 5.29 on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that the s.s. Stellatus of Helsingborg, Sweden, was ashore near Freswick Bay but was in no immediate danger. At 5.50 the...
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Galway Bay. At 6.15 on the evening of the 30th of September, 1958, the local doctor asked the honorary secre- tary for the use of the life-boat to convey him to Inishere to attend a patient believed to have appendicitis. At 6.30 the...
A Converted Ship's Life-Boat (1)
PERILOUS PROXIMITY Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.45 p.m. on 7th July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a converted ship's life-boat was reported to be drifting helplessly towards Dulas rocks in heavy seas before a...
Rosenburg
The Ramsgate Coast- guard telephoned at 11.30 A.M. on the 14th November that the Tongue Light-vessel had reported a ship's Life-boat drifting by in a westerly direction. The Motor Life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was...
A New Life-Boat Film
A YEAR ago the Institution had a sound film made which showed the building of a motor life-boat, from the felling of teak and mahogany logs in Burma and Honduras up to the arrival of the completed boat at her...
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