LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Noreg
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—On the morn- ing of the 5th of February, 1948, the Swedish steamer Noreg, of Gothenburg, bound with ore from Spain to Silloth, was at anchor one and a half miles east-north-east of Ramsey. She sig- nalled that she was in...
Maybird
On the afternoon of the 13th June the civic guard at Wexford telephoned that a fishing boat was in distress in the North Bay. A strong southerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy showers. The motor life-boat K.E.C.F. put out at...
Brandeburg
On the evening of the 15th December the German consul reported that the skipper of the German trawler Brandenburg, of Weser- munde, which had just anchored in the harbour, was seriously ill. A whole S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea,...
Water Nymph
Wells, Norfolk.—At 7 A.M. on the 24th May the motor cruiser Water Nymph left Wells for Boston, in charge of the life-boat's second-coxswain and another man. Later on the coastguard reported that she was flying distress signals, and the...
Manx Lad
Peel, Isle of Man.—At 5.10 P.M. on the 5th December, 1938, the coastguard reported flares six miles N.N.E.
of Peel. A strong and freshening S.W.
breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.
The...
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HOLY ISLAND WITHOUT FOOD Holy Island, Northumberland.—By the 15th of March, 1947, with the roads blocked by sriow, no bread or other provisions had been received at Holy Island for nearly a week and it was decided that the life-boat should...
Prevail
Poolbeg, Co. Dublin.—At about 5 P.M.
on the 13th January, 1938, two men put off in a small boat to go to the trawler Prevail, of Dublin, which was lying in the River Liffey. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a moderate...
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St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At about midnight on the 16th September, 1938, it was learned that a man—a member of the local committee—was very ill with appendicitis, and that it was important that he be taken to hospital at Penzance...
Edna
Moelfre, Anglesey. — About eleven o'clock on the morning of the 25th of May, 1953, a message was received from Benllech that a local rowing boat with a man and five children on board was in difficulties off Red Wharf Bay and was being...
A Firefly Sailing Dinghy
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1954, the Penmon coastguard rang up to say that a Firefly sailing dinghy, with a crew of two, had capsized off Irish- man's Spit at the eastern end of the Menai Straits....