LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Oil Tanker (2)
JANUARY 16TH. - ILFRACOMBE, AND LYNMOUTH, DEVON, AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. An oil tanker had caught fire and had sunk in the Bristol Channel after an explosion, thought to have been caused by a mine, but the life-boats and an Admiralty vessel...
Strathelliot (1)
Stromness, Orkneys.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th of October, 1952, the motor mechanic reported that conditions between Bow Rock and Taing of Selwick were deteriorat- ing. The steam trawler Strathelliot had stranded there...
Gunhild
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. — At about 5.30 P.M. on the 12th October, 1938, the No. 1 man at the Gyleen coast lifesaving station telephoned that a large steamer was near a very dangerous shoal of rocks and appeared to be trying to get clear. A...
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SICK MAN TAKEN OFF DRIFTER Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.18 on the morning of the 21st September, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a member of the crew of the drifter Tea Rose of Fraserburgh was thought to have...
The Auxiliary Barge Pudge
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 5.24 on the afternoon of the 24th of October, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the auxiliary barge Pudge, of London, which had a crew of two, had gone aground half a mile south of Saltfleet Haven. The...
St. Georges
RED FLARES At 3.15 p.m. on nth Janurary, 1966 the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the local trawler St. Georges was burning red flares just inside the West Gorton buoy. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick responded at 3.30...
The Cross-Channel Ferry Free Enterprise VIII
Reported missing DOVER STRAIT COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Dover lifeboat station at 1915 on Sunday, November 7, 1976, that a man had been reported missing and assumed overboard from the cross-Channel ferry Free Enterprise...
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Jenny Lind
PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN.—While a gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a high sea, on the 30th September, signals of distress •were shown by the lugger Jenny Lind, of Castletown, which while returning from the herring fishery stranded...
Fishing Boats (1)
Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—On the 26th October, 1939, a whole N.E. by N.
gale was blowing, with a very rough sea in Eyemouth Bay. Four local fishing boats were waiting to enter the port.
The motor life-boat...