LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (26)
OCT. 27TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea but the life-boat found nothing. - Permanent paid crew : Rewards, 9s..
Yachts
JULY 21ST. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 1.30 in the afternoon the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched to attend the Curracloe Regatta.
The sea was rough, with a strong southsouth- westerly wind blowing...
Coxswain Cross Retires.
Coxswain Robert Cross, G.M., who has been in command nf the lifeboat station at The Humber for 3i years, has retired at the age of 67.
These last tour years have been the busiest, as well as the most dangerous, in his long...
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Services by Shore-Boats (3)
BURRA ISLE, SHETLANDS. While out haddock fishing in a small open boat from Skeld three men were thrown into the sea when their boat was capsized by a squall. The accident happened at about 7.30 A.M. on the 18th March, 1939, when the boat was...
Category: Services
Suzanne Renee
FEBRUARY 8TH. - ST. HELIER, JERSEY.
At 10 A.M. news was received from a fisherman that a French fishing boat was ashore on the rocks about one mile S.E. of the island. A light northerly wind was blowing with a moderate sea...
Sister Pat
FEB. 17TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 11 A.M. the motor boat Sister Pat, belonging to Fleetwood, with two men on board, was seen by the second cox-swain of the life-boat to be making distress signals. She was being driven...
A DRAM TO REMEMBER
The Scapa Distillery has released 249 bottles of a Battle of Jutland centenary whisky, to remember those lost in the First World War’s largest naval battle. The Scapa Jutland whisky has matured for 16 years, with 11 of the bottles named...
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Fleetwing, of Newcastle
At midnight on the 13th, in reply to signals from the Gull Lightship, the Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched, in a strong breeze at W.S.W., and proceeded under sail to the assistance of the barque Fleetwing, of Newcastle, bound...
Wasp
On the 22nd September, during a heavy gale from S.S.W., the smack Wasp, of Belfast, had her sails blown away, and drove ashore at Kingmore, in Dundrum Bay. The Memorial Life-boat put off to her assistance and rescued the crew, consisting of...
Fishing Boats
The No. 2 Life-boat was also launched, at about 11.30 A.M. on the 8th August, to the assistance of several fishing boats which had been caught in a gale from the S., and were in great danger while making for Montrose. The Life-boat remained...