LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dawn Anne and a Dinghy
Capsized dinghy ON THE AFTERNOON of Wednesday May 11, 1983, both lifeboats stationed at Eastbourne were launched to help the fishing vessel Dawn Anne, in difficulties with a broken fuel line 1 '/2 miles east of the lifeboat station; she...
Reginam, James and Orbe
On the same day, during a very strong N.E. gale, with a heavy sea, the Skegness Life-boat, Her- bert Ingram, rendered valuable service to distressed vessels and their crews. In the first instance a flag of distress was seen from a passing...
Janny
Margate, Kent. At 12.57 on the afternoon of the 31st of December, 1958, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message received through the North Foreland radio station that the General Post Office cable ship Ariel had received...
Troop
Signals of distress having been shown by the ship Troop, of Liverpool, bound from Barrow for San Francisco with steel rails, the Fishguard No. 2 Life-boat, the Appin, put off at 8 A.M., on the 7th November, during a strong breeze from the...
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Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 1.22 in the afternoon of the 30th of October, 1951, the Zetland medical officer for health asked if the life-boat would take a doctor to Fair Isle to treat a sick man, as the regular mail boat was under- going repairs....
Valiant
Anstruther, Fife - At 3.12 p.m. on 20th May, 1967, news was received that a yacht had been seen flying distress signals off Fifeness. The life-boat The Doctors was launched at 3.30 in a fresh west south westerly wind and a rough sea. It was...
Broughton
ARKLOW.—The Coxswain of the Out Pensioner Life-boat, of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, stationed at Arklow, makes the following report of the circumstances attending the wreck of the barque Broughton, of Swansea, on the Irish coast, and...
Aida Lauro, of Naples
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 1st July the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore near Pendeen. She was the Italian steamer Aida Lauro, of Naples, bound from Liverpool to Hull with a cargo of linseed and cotton seed,...
Eilen
During a whole N.E. gale with a very heavy and broken sea a fishing boat came into Scrabster, on the 15th May, and reported that the motor fishing boat Eilen, of Wick, was in a dangerous position to the west of Ruff of...
Carlotta
MAY 5TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
Early in the afternoon the auxiliary yacht Carlotta left Glasson Dock, with a party of five aboard, for a pleasure trip to the Isle of Man. She got into difficulties and anchored, and was...