LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary Cook
GIRVAN, N.B.—At noon on the 3rd March the smack Mary Cook, of Campbeltown, was seen to be drifting from her moorings at the north of the harbour, and was in imminent danger of being blown out to sea. The master of the smack, who was on shore...
Fishing Cobles
As the return of the local cobles from the fishing- grounds on the 22nd January was at- tended with considerable risk, due to the strong E.S.E. gale which had sud- denly arisen, the Life-boat was launched at 7.30 A.M. to assist them. The...
Amelie
HUNSTANTON.—The Life-boat Licensed Victualler put off at noon on the 17th May in a rough sea and a strong N.N.W.
breeze, a vessel having been reported in distress. The vessel proved to be the brig Amelie, of Frederickstadt,...
Fishing Boats
On the morning of the 17th January, between 4 A.M. and 7 A.M., the fishing fleet of Gourdon put to sea. At 8 A.M.
there were signs of an approaching gale, and some of the smaller boats returned to harbour. By noon a...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At noon on the 29th of October, 1953, the Northern Lighthouse Board reported that a man in the Barrahead light- house was ill and needed immediate medical attention. The weather was too bad for the...
Golden Crown
COBLE ESCORTED IN ROUGH SEA Runswick, Yorkshire. At 11.54 on the morning of the 26th June, 1962, the coxswain learnt that the fishing coble Golden Crown was long overdue. There was a strong northerly wind and a rough sea, and it was high...
A Canoe
Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.33 on the after- noon of the 21st of September, 1959, the watchman on the east pier told the honorary secretary that a girl was adrift in a canoe in Pegwell Bay some distance from the shore. Eight minutes later the...
Aguilla
Dover, Kent.—At 12.20 on the after- noon of the 1st of August, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had sprung a leak and needed help off the South Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 12.35. The...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At noon on the 17th of November, 1960, the life- boat coxswain received a telephone message that a sick person on the island of Rhum needed hospital treatment urgently. There was a strong south- westerly wind with a...
Morning Star
DECEMBER 3RD. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
During the morning while the fishing boats were out an east-south-east wind sprang up, causing a heavy surf on the beach. As the boat Morning Star, with a crew of three, had not returned by...