LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Europa
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 5.40 on the morning of the 9th of August, 1957, the coastguard tele- phoned that a fishing vessel was ashorein Beadnell Bay. The life-boat crew assembed, but a message was then received that the crew of...
Ancora
Boulmer, Northumberland.—At 4.10 on the morning of the 1st of December, 1955, the coastguard reported that a ship had run ashore between Boulmer and Craster. At 4.55 the life-boat Clarissa Langdon was launched, with the second coxswain in...
Aureola
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had gone ashore on the outer reef at Scotston Head, and five minutes later the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow,...
Alnora
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 5 o'clock in the evening of the 27th of February, 1949, information was re- ceived that a man a woman and three children had put out in the motor boat Alnora from Landermere Creek for the Walton Yacht...
Europa
During a whole N.N.W. gale on the 8th January a vessel was sighted dismasted and apparently at anchor about eight miles off Trevose Head. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey were summoned, and in tow of the Institution's tug...
Arosa
Twelve Spanish fishermen lost their lives when their trawler sank in appalling weather off the west coast of Ireland. Just one man, 24-year-old Ricardo Garcia, was saved after the Welsh-registered Arosa hit rocks on 3 October last year..<...
A Small Motor Launch
JUNE 1 6TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A small motor launch had been seen burning flares off Ballantrae, but the life-boat was recalled before reaching her.
- Rewards, £3 17s. 6d..
J. W. R.
BALLANTRAE.—The fishingboat J. W. R., of this port, was seen to have lost halyards and mast, which had been broken by the violence of the gale, on the 30th December,! and it being impossible for the crew to run her ashore, the Life-boat...
The Peggy Gordon
On the morning of the 28th September the Ballantrae coastguard reported that a small fish- ing boat off Lendalfoot wanted help.
A moderate W.N.W. breeze was blow- ing, with a moderate sea. The weather was thick, with rain...
Clarinda
On the morning of the 23rd March the coxswain was told that the small local motor fishing boat Clarinda, with four men on board, had not returned with the rest of the fleet from the Ballantrae Banks. A moderate S.E. gale was blowing, with a...