LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Northern Coast, of Liverpool
Port Askaig, Islay— At 11 P.M. on the 5th December, during the height of a northerly gale, a steamer, bound north, stopped and signalled by morse to the life-boat station that a doctor was wanted. The weather was very cold, with heavy snow...
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Salcombe, Devon.—At 10.0 on the night of the 6th August, 1952, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a red flare had been seen one mile south-south-east of Bolt Head. At 10.10 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse left her moorings,...
Patricia Hague
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of December, 1952, the coastguard reported that the steam trawler Patricia Hague, of Fleetwood, was in distress two and a half miles north-west-by-west of Point of Ayre, and at 5.15...
The S.S. Intendant J. Patrizi
Dover, Kent.—In the morning of the 21st of November, 1949, the S.S.
Intendant J. Patrizi, of Rouen, which had been ashore off Seabrook, was steaming towards Dover in a very rough sea with a whole southerly gale blowing and...
Mr. W. W. Harris
BY the death on the 16th of February, 1950, at the age of 73, of Mr. W. W.
Harris, M.B.E., of New Brighton and Liverpool, the Institution has lost one of its most energetic and devoted honorary secretaries. Mr. Harris, who...
Category: Obituaries
A Sailing Boat (1)
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 9.45 on the night of the 18th of July, 1950, the police reported that a small boat, with three men aboard, needed help in Fal- mouth Bay. At ten o'clock the life- boat John- and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood, on...
The S.S. Fort Enterprise
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 11.13 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1951, the S.S. Fort Enterprise, of London, bound for America from Liverpool, wirelessed that she had a sick steward. She asked for him to be landed, saying that she would be...
A Small Rowing Boat
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—Late on the evening of the 18th July information was received that a small rowing boat, with a man and a woman on board, appeared to be unmanageable and was drifting out to sea with the strong ebb tide. A moderate...
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INJURED SEAMAN TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL Berwick-upon-Tweed,NorthumberIand.
At eight o'clock on the evening of the 1st October, 1962, a message was received that the motor vessel Corbrae of London was making for Berwick,...
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SEVEN CHILDREN ON BOARD Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At i.oo p.m.
on 24th August, 1965, a lo-foot fibreglass dinghy left Ballycotton for Garryvoe Strand with a man and seven children on board. The wind was then south-west force 3...