LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Avon
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 3.9 in the afternoon of the 17th of March, 1949, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that the Great Yarmouth steam trawler^won, half a mile off the harbour, had asked for a boat to...
Ros Ceaion
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 5th of September, 1960, a Mayday message was received from Valentia radio station that the fishing vessel Ros Ceaion was adrift in Blasket Sound and needed help. There was a moderate...
A Boat from North Monarch
Moelfre, Anglesey. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 25th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boat from the tanker North Monarch of Monrovia had broken down a mile to the north-east. At 9.10, when the...
Delga I
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 9.50 p.m. on 24th August, 1966, information was received that the trawler Delga I of Grimsby had an injured man on board and required a doctor. The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched, with a...
September (1)
SEPTEMBER MEETING EGLINTON, Co. LONDONDERRY. About 12.15 in the afternoon of the 16th of December, 1944, the Eglinton coastguard received an SOS from the R.N.A.S. Eglinton, that a Corsair aeroplane had crashed into the sea 200 yards off...
Category: Services
Wietska
SOUTHEND, ESSEX.—During a heavy gale from the S.W., on the 8th December, the Dutch schooner Wietska parted both anchors and chains and drove ashore onthe Knock Sands off Shoeburyness. In response to her signals of distress the Life-boat Boys...
Isabella
WICK.—The fishing-lugger Isabella, of Wick, while attempting to put to sea on the 26th February, the water being still rough after a S.W. gale, was struck by heavy sea and was driven up the river.
Both her anchors were...
A Landing Craft
OUT OF PETROL Padstow, Cornwall.—At 9.55 in the evening of the 29th of March, 1947, the Trevose Head coastguard reported that a vessel was firing rockets two miles to the north-east of him. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing and the...
Renown
NEW BRIGHTON.—At 2.30 P.M., on the 19th July, intelligence having been received that a vessel was showing signals of distress, the No. 2 Life-boat Henry Richardson put off, in tow of the steam-tugBrilliant Star, and found the three-masted...
Gramsbergen
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 2.26 early on the morning of the 27th of November, 1954, the coastguard tele- phoned that the motor vessel Grams- bergen, of Holland, had run ashore in Fishguard harbour. At 3.5 the life- boat White Star was...