LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Moss Bay
Barrow, Lancashire; and Workington, Cumberland.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1953, the YValney Island coastguard rang up the Barrow life-boat station to say that the steam hopper Moss Bay, of Workington, bound...
The Pinnace from H.M.S. Verulam
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — At twelve minutes past midnight on the 1st of June, 1953, the pier nightwatchman told the life-boat motor mechanic that the pinnace from H.M.S. Verulam, which was anchored in Llandudno Bay, had sent an S O S...
A Sailing Boat
Howth, Co. Dublin. At 9.30 on the night of the 13th October, 1961, an hotel manager told the honorary sec- retary that a friend of his had left Howth in a small outboard sailing boat with another man and a girl for Dun Laoghaire, and that...
Galilee
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.41 on the morning of the 5th of Octeber, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the fishing vessel Galilee with a crew of five had gone aground near the east pier and was in danger of being carried on to the Scaur...
Shirley May
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.30 on the morning of the 9th of October, 1957, a message was received from theAlderney harbour master that three men had put out in a boat to go fishing and had not returned. They had been last seen at six...
The Icelandic Steam-Trawler Baldur
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 2.25 in the afternoon of the 20th of July, 1948, the Portpatrick Radio Station telephoned that the Icelandic steam- trawler Baldur, on passage from Fleet- wood to Iceland, was approaching Campbeltown and...
Seahawk
Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At 4.31 in the afternoon of the 6th of August, 1949, the day on which the County Borough Centenary Celebra- tions opened, the South Shields police reported that a sailing yacht had cap- sized off the Trow Rocks,...
The S.S. Stellatus
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 5.29 on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that the s.s. Stellatus of Helsingborg, Sweden, was ashore near Freswick Bay but was in no immediate danger. At 5.50 the...
Catharina W.
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 31st of July, 1959, the Malin Head radio station informed the honorary secretary of a distress message received from a Dutch coaster stating that she had broken down north of Arran...
Mercurius
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.20 on the night of the 15th of November, 1949, during a fog, the coastguard reported that two ships had been in collision off Thames Haven. As a result, four men were adrift in a ship's boat, others...