LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tatra
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 1.5 in the afternoon, on the 18th of January, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard tele- phoned that the Wick radio station had reported the motor ship Tatra of Tonsberg, broken down and in distress, twenty-three miles...
Kommander Svend Foyn
RAMSGATE.—At 3.45 P.M. on 29th November, in answer to signals from the North Goodwin Light-vessel, the Life-boat Bradford was towed out of the harbour by the steam-tug Aid. A strong N.W.
gale was blowing at the time,...
Mary B. Mitchell, of Dublin
DECEMBER 15TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
At five in the afternoon the Ross Lighthouse reported by telephone that a vessel appeared to be drifting, but was not showing any distress signals. A south-easterly gale was blowing, with a...
Fishing Cobles
WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.—About 8 A.M. on the 5th May a north-easterly gale suddenly sprang up, accompanied by rain and sleet and a rough sea, whereupon several fishing cobles, which had left the harbour earlier in the morning, attempted to return....
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Dunbar, East Lothian. — At eight o'clock on the evening of the 18th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up the coxswain to say that the police had reported that three people and a dog were cut off by the tide half a mile west of Dunbar....
Additional Rocket Stations
We learn from the 15th Annual Report of the Rocket Stations on the Coast of Yorkshire and elsewhere, just issued by Mr. CARTE, Ordnance Storekeeper at Hull, that during the past year two new rocket stations have been established at Portland...
Category: Articles
Sea King
During a moderate S.E. gale and very heavy sea, on the 3rd January, the steam- trawler Sea King, of Hull, was observed in the offing making signals for a pilot.
The sea was too rough for an ordinary shoreboat to put off,...
Kingfisher
AUGUST 6TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At 1.15 in the morning the Bangor coastguard telephoned that they had learned from the Ballyholme Hotel that a yacht was in distress in Ballyholme Bay. She was the Kingfisher of Bangor,...
Two Canoes
Eastney, Hampshire. At 4.15 p.m.
on 6th November, 1965, a fisherman told the honorary secretary that a wildfowler was waving for assistance on South Binness Island. After receiving confirmation of the report from the...
Red House Lugger
Two lifeboats save six from yacht in storm conditions Aldeburgh and Lowestoft lifeboats were both involved in a long, arduous service in Storm Force winds and extremely heavy seas when they rescued six people from a yacht in the North Sea at...