LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Lagosian and the S.S.. Ashly
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 11.10 P.M. the coastguard reported two vessels on fire, one five miles S.E.
of Rattray Head and the other about ten miles E.S.E. from Peterhead. They belonged...
Jebez, of Greenock
On the night of the 26th Nov., it blowing a gale of wind from S.S.W., with a heavy sea on, and being very dark, lights, as from a vessel in-distress, were observed in Castle- town Bay in a dangerous positios. The life-boat was accordingly...
Ocean Spray (3)
FOUR LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH OF A YACHT Padstow, Cornwall, Clovelly, Appledore, and Dfracombe, Devon.—On the llth of November, 1947, the motor yacht Ocean Spray, with a crew of two men and a woman, ran«into very bad weather off the north...
Ambassador and Ashlowe
SWANSEA.—The Life-boat Wolverhampton was launched at 2.15 P.M. on the 23rd January, in answer to a signal of distress from the barque Ambassador, of Aberdeen, bound from Cardiff to Bio with a cargo of coal, which bad been in collision with...
Minette
Margate, Kent. At 6.53 on the evening of the llth of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a radio-telephone message received from the tanker Helix that a sailing yacht was in difficulties one mile east of Tongue...
An American Flying Fortress (1)
SEPTEMBER 17TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 12.25 in the morning the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea one and a half miles north by east of Seahouses. She was an...
The S.S. Warren Grove
Arbroath, Broughty Ferry, and Montrose, Angus.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1948, the Arbroath coastguard telephoned the Arbroath life-boat station that the S.S. El Ciervo, of London, had reported that she had picked...
The S.S. Warren Grove (1)
Arbroath, Broughty Ferry, and Montrose, Angus.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1948, the Arbroath coastguard telephoned the Arbroath life-boat station that the S.S. El Ciervo, of London, had reported that she had picked...
The S.S Hawkwood (1)
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT HARTLEPOOL JANUARY 26TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.55 in the morning word came from the coastguard that he had seen rockets from a vessel off Seaton Carew. The life-boat was called out at once...
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Girls trapped A POLICE message on May 1 told the Newquay, Cornwall, ILB that four people were stranded on rocks on the north side of Zacrys Island.
The maroons were fired at 4.26 p.m.
Wind was north...