LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saint Kentigern
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — About 11.25 on the night of the 10th of March, 1952, a life-boatman reported that he had heard a wireless message from the motor vessel Saint Kentigern, of Glasgow, laden with coal with a crew of eight. She had...
Nymfea
SHIPS IN COLLISION Eastbourne, Sussex. At 1.5 a.m. on 15th July, 1965, a collision was reported to have occurred ten miles south-by-east of Beachy Head. One of the vessels was sinking. At 1.20 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched in a...
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Brighter Hope
Ramsey, Isle of Man;—At 5.17 on the evening of the 22nd of May, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship seemed to be on fire six miles east- north-east of Queens Pier. Later on, he reported that she was a drifter and had been taken in...
Brabloch
BULL BAY.—Signals of distress were shown by a vessel lying between the East Mouse and Amlwch port, on the evening of the 12th January. They were repeated in quick succession, and the Lifeboat Curling was promptly launched, four minutes only...
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Mary B.
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
A Fishing Vessel
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Evelina
LTTHAM, LANCASHIRE.—The Charles Biggs Life-boat was launched at 12.30 P.M. on the 5th November, in reply to signals of distress shown by the flat Evelina, of Euncorn, bound from Douglas, Isle of Man, to Euncorn with a cargo of railway iron....
Two Dinghies (3)
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...