LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 7.0 on the evening of the 14th of November, 1952, a doctor asked if the life-boat would take him to the Island of Rhum to attend a sick person. The weather was too bad for the usual boat to put out, and at 7.30...
Herring Boats
A strong N.E. gale raised a nasty sea on the 2nd July, and about mid-day it increased so much that it was extremely dangerous to some of the herring-boats, which were waiting to come in on the flood tide. The life- saving apparatus was...
Care
At about 5.30 A.M. on the 10th January a vessel was seen drifting before a S.E.
gale in Bridlington Bay. Information was given to the Life-boat authorities, and the Life-boat George and Jane Walker was launched and...
Tralee
On the 27th Feb- ruary the motor ketch Truly, of Tralee, struck the Runnelstone whilst bound from Cardiff to Penzance with a cargo of flour. Signals of distress were made and in response the Life-boat Elizabeth and Blanche was launched. She...
89
During the afternoon of the 8th August, the Trawler No. 89, of Liverpool, stranded on Taylor's Bank. Towards sunset it was seen that the wind was backing and likely to increase; it was therefore thought advisable to send the Life-boat...
Charles Francis
During a heavy W.S.W. gale signals of distress were seen at 2.20 A.M. on the 6th March from a vessel in close proximity to the " stones." The Life-boat James Stevens No. 10 was promptly launched and with some difficulty, owing to...
Jumbo
The Clacton Life- boat was launched at 12.20 P.M. on 13th November to a barge which was ashore on the West Gunfleet Sands.
The vessel was the barge Jumbo, of London, bound from Sheerness to Ipswich with a cargo of cement....
St Irene
At about 2.25 P.M. on 1st December the steam trawler St. Irene, of Hull, stranded on the Inner Binks, when returning, in dense fog, from Bear Island. She was seen from the shore and the No. 2 Motor Life-boat City of Bradford I. put...
Captain Owen Jones, of Moelfre, Anglesey
IN the early morning of 27th July a number of fishing boats went out from Moelfre, Anglesey. A gale sprang up and all the boats returned but one.
It was a sailing boat with only one man on board, Captain Owen Jones. The...
Category: Obituaries
Fishing Boats
GOURDON AND JOHNSHAVEN. — Several fishing-boats which had proceeded to sea in favourable weather early in the morning of the 4th March were overtaken by gale from the S.S.E., and as the sea became very heavy considerable anxiety was felt for...