LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Cairnmona and Strathlossie
OCT. 30TH. - PETERHEAD, AND ABERDEEN.
At 11.15 P.M. a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was sinking three miles east of Rattray Head, and that two vessels were standing...
Vixen and John and Ann
FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES.—On the 20th December, during a whole gale of wind from the N. and a heavy sea, the No. 2 Life-boat Helen of Foxley put off at 6 A.M. in reply to signals of distress shown by two vessels at anchor in the roadstead.<...
Offshore Windfarms – A Blot On The Seascape Or An Answer To Global Warming?
Offshore windfarms – a blot on the seascape or an answer to global warming? Photo: © Dong VE / AS. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Theodoron
Blyth, and Amble, Northumberland.
At 2.50 on the morning of the 26th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the Blyth honorary secretary that a fisher- man had reported that his two sons, who were out in the coble...
Prelude
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 4.37 a.m. on 14th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that workmen from British Rail had reported sighting a red flare, possibly outside the breakwater. At 4.39 the coastguard sighted a white...
The S.S. Larchfield
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 1.55 early on the morning of the 24th of February, 1953, the coastguard reported that a wireless message had been intercepted indicating that the S.S. Larchfield, of Liverpool, was ashore near Carmel Head, in Holyhead...
Two Jet Aircraft
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.20 on the night of the llth of December, 1952, the coastguard reported that two jet aircraft had collided and crashed into the sea at a position four miles north- west, thence twenty miles north-east by north. The...
Anna Hendrika and a Rubber Dinghy
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 4.55 p.m.
on 6th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch trawler had struck the Flattens, and was aground, but the local pilot boat and a boat from a Holyhead boatyard...
Yvonne
JUNE 12TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 8.44 A.M. the North Goodwin Light-vessel southerly breeze was blowing and the sea was reported that a vessel had struck a mine one calm, At 8.55 A.M. the motor life-boat Prudential was launched and found that...
Two Aeroplanes
APRIL 20TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 2 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that two aeroplanes were in the sea, and that one airman had come down by parachute, and at 2.10 P.M. the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil Service...