LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kate Cowie
MARCH 15TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
At about 10.15 A.M. news was received through the coastguard that a fishing boat was on fire to the west of May Island.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing, with a...
Star of Victory (1)
OCT. 29TH . - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. The Aberdeen trawler Star of Victory had stranded near Keiss on the 15th October, 1939, and the Wick life-boat City of Edinburgh helped her on that day and rescued her crew of ten on the following day.<...
Canada Belle
The barque Canada Belle, of Whitby, struck on the Whitburn Steel rocks during a gale of wind at S.S.W. on the night of the 23rd Nov., 1872. Fortu- nately her signals of distress were ob- served, and the Thomas Wilson Life-boat, •with...
Lead Us and Pilot Me
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 10th of October, 1952, the coastguard reported that two fish- ing boats were at sea and that condi- tions at the harbour bar were very dangerous. At 11.20 the No. 1 life- boat Mary Ann...
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Pandora
MAN RESCUED AFTER EXPLOSION IN FISHING VESSEL Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. About 2.15 on the morning of the 7th June, 1963, Porthdinllaen coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an explosion had been heard to seaward off Trevor...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LOWESTOPT, SUFFOLK.—Shortly before 8 P.M. on the 20th July a trawler, when trying to make Pakefield Gatway, struck on the N.E. part of the Newcome sands.
The coxswain of the Life-boat observed the accident, assembled the...
Category: Services
A Dinghy
Ten rescued TOLD BY a member of the public at 1309 on August 10, 1974, that a dinghy being sailed singlehanded had capsized in Port Eynon Bay and her helmsman was having trouble righting her, J. Walter Grove senior crew member of Horton and...
The Screw Flat Albion
On the 27th December, the screw-flat Albion, of Hull, stranded on the " Irishman's Spit" during a strong breeze from the N.N.W., the heavy seas making a clean breach over her. She hoisted signals of distress, and at 9.30 A.M....
Vanguard
CAISTER.—The fishing dandy Vanguard, of Great Yarmouth, returning to her port from the fishing grounds during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. and a heavy sea on the 19th September, went on the Barber Sand ; she got off, but afterwards...