LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Strathrye
Lerwick, Shetland*, and Stromness, Orkneys.—llth January. The steam trawler Strathrye, of Aberdeen, with a crew of nine, sent out a wireless message that she was leaking and in danger of sinking at about 10 P.M. on the llth January. The...
Krutynia
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.43 on the morning of the 14th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an unidentified coaster was aground near Barrow no. 6 buoy and was believed to need help. A strong north-east was...
A Curragh
Galway Bay. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 23rd of October, 1957, the honorary secretary received a request for the life-boat to make forClare Island in Clew Bay to search for a curragh, which was missing with five people on...
H.M.S. Barcombe
Islay, Hebrides. At 9.40 on the night of the 13th of January, 1958, the the Kilchoman coastguard informed the honorary secretary that H.M.S. Bar- combe was aground on Oronsay. At 10.5 the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth put out in a slight sea...
Hawa-Dilli
STEAMER PASSENGER SPOTS FLARES Rhyl, Flintshire. At 7.25 on the evening of the 12th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a passenger on board the steamer St. Tudno of Liverpool had reported seeing red flares six to...
Lifeboat Services
South East Division Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from...
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ILB Dash TWO TEENAGE girls brought word to Rhossili Coastguard Station, at 6 p.m.
on July 2, 1973, that four of their friends were stranded on Worms Head.
A member of the Coastguard drove straight to the...
An American Flying Fortress (2)
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...
Hopper No. 2, of Preston
NOVEMBER 16TH - 17TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT, KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE, AND MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. At 8.45 in the evening of November 16th the Kirkcudbright life-boat Morison Watson was launched to the help of Hopper No. 2, of Preston, which was reported...
George Crabbe's Borough By A. W. Hawkes
THE Suffolk Aldeburgh ('Aldeburc' of Domesday) —to which we must add 'on sea' to distinguish it from other Aldeburghs, of slightly different spellings, in Norfolk and Essex—lies right on the coast of the North Sea, four miles...
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