LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Duke of Normandy
St. Helier, Jersey-At io.2ia.m. on 8th March, 1966, the duty harbour officer received a Mayday message via Jersey radio from the tug Duke of Normandy saying that she had struck a rock near Les Vascelius on the Les Minquiers reef. The...
A Hunter Aircraft
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...
Mary Ellen
CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The coble Mary Ellen, of Cullercoats, whenreturning to port from the fishing - grounds, was seen to be in difficulties at the back of the bar, on which a heavy sea was breaking, on the 25th...
Pilot Me II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—In the early morning of the 8th of April, 1949, the local motor fishing boat Pilot Me II left for the fishing grounds, was over- taken by bad weather and decided to return to Whitby. At half past six the life-boat coxswain...
Idaho, of Bath U.S.
Early on the morning of the 13th Jan. intelligence was received that a vessel was shewing signals of distress off this place. On the Life-boat Alfred and'Ernest being taken to the spot it was found that the ship Idaho, of Bath, U.S.,...
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The S.S. Dunsley, of Whitby
JANUARY 20TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 6.10 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel was close inshore, and at 6.34 that she was ashore on East Scar. The motor life-boat Louisa Polden was launched at 7.8. A...
Proficient
DECEMBER 24TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Five men of a salvage firm were at work on the motor fishing boat Proficient, of Lowestoft, which was under Admiralty control and which, a few days before, had gone ashore ahout 400...
Aeroplanes (1)
SEPTEMBER 23RD. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX.
It was thought that aeroplanes had collided and one was reported to have come down in flames, but nothing could be found . - Rewards : Clacton - on - Sea...
The R.A.S.C. Tender Sir Herbert Miles
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.25 in the afternoon of the 28th of January, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was sounding her whistle for help, and the No. 2 life-boat, Edmund and Mary Robinson, was launched at...