LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Tug and Lighter
The No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet was called out shortly before 1 P.M. on the 18th December to the assistance of a tug and lighter, which were flying signals of distress.
Both vessels were in trouble, and a moderate N.N.E....
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Aitb, Shetlands.—On the evening of the 6th of March, 1947, a doctor at Walls telephoned that he had a patient, a young woman, with acute appendi- citis. Owing to snowdrifts the only open road was from Scalloway to Ler- wick, but there was ho...
Torborg
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 12.30 P.M. on the 17th November, 1937, the coastguard reported a small vessel anchored about a mile east of Brown's Point, Cullercoats, apparently with engine trouble. The weather was bad, and the...
A Royal Engineers Landing Craft
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 10.6 on the morning of the 30th of September, 1952, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a Royal Engineers landing craft, with a crew of seven, was in danger of being driven towards the boom between No...
A Sailing Yacht
Dover, Kent. — About 4.15 on the afternoon of the 19th of July, 1953, the harbour board gateman at the Eastern Docks reported that a small sailing yacht with a crew of four had capsized at the eastern end of the...
Silver Line, Effort, Progress, Floral Queen and Good Faith
A DANGEROUS HARBOUR BAR Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 11.30 in the morning of the 4th of December, 1947, word was received that local fishing cobles and other boats were coming in. The tide was ebbing, a light easterly breeze was blowing and...
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Torbay, Devon. — At 8.10 in the evening of Sunday, the 17th of July, 1949, the coastguard informed the life- boat station that a small boy had fallen down the cliff and a rescue party had found him, but that it was impossible for them to...
Dragor Maersk
DANISH MOTOR VESSEL IN COLLISION Dungeness, Kent. At 6.18 on the evening of the 22nd April, 1962, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had heard on his wireless a message being passed to North Foreland radio station from a...
Phoenix
MOTOR FISHING VESSEL TOWED IN GALE Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 8.40 on the evening of Sunday the 25th August, 1963, the Penmon coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the m.f.v.
Phoenix, of Caernarvon, had been sighted...
Rugby
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — At 12.43 early on the morning of the 1st of February, 1955, the coastguard tele- phoned that a trawler had run on the rocks at Inverallochy. At 1.12 the life- boat The Duchesx of Kent was...