LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (188)
NOVEMBER 28TH. - ABERDEEN. An unknown aeroplane was reported to have come down six miles from Bridge of Don, but nothing was found. The next day the life-boat again searched for wreckage, but without result. - Rewards : £14 11s. 6d.,...
Central Appeals Committee
THE CENTRAL APPEALS COMMITTEE met for its final meeting at the Royal Festival Hall on Thursday, May 8, following the annual general meeting.
The CAC had been formed at a time when income was not balancing...
Category: Committee
Service By the Torry Life-Saving Apparatus
Ox the afternoon of the 18th January the steam trawler Ben Screel, of Aber- deen, with a crew of ten on board, went ashore on the rocks opposite the Girdle- ness Lighthouse, near Aberdeen. A strong south-easterly wind was blowing with a...
Category: Services
Envermue
On the evening of the 22nd April the Coastguard re- ported that a steamer was ashore on the rocks to the west of St. Alban's Head, and making signals of distress; • and a subsequent message from Kim- meridge smggested that the Life-boat...
The S.S. Donaghadee and Arestal
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 8.15 on the night of the 1st of April, 1949, the Civic Guard reported a message from the Coast Life-saving Service that the s.s. Donaghadee, of Belfast, was aground at Castlerock, Dundalk Bay, with a broken rudder...
Confide
Stromness, Orkney.—At about 6.50 P.M.
on the 23rd March, 1938, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on Viera Skerry, south of Rousay, in a bad position, and was leaking. A strong S.W. breeze was...
The Admiralty Dredger St. Giles
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At eight o'clock on the morning of the llth of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Ad- miralty dredger St. Giles was bound for Scarborough with a seriously injured man on board...
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DOCTOR'S CALL Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 12.20 a.m. on iyth December, 1963, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a young boy needed to be taken to hospital at South Uist. There were light north-easterly airs with a...
Piciess
Damage limitation Caught out by severe weather that had not been forecast, the yacht Piciess had broken mast and sail and had engine failure. The 6.5m yacht and its crew of two, were at the mercy of the seas, 5 miles east of Lymington...
The Screw Steamer Venetian
NEW BRIGHTON.—Eockets were observed from the Crosby Lightship, and from the Waterloo and New Brighton Coastguard Stations, on the night of the 12th of. January. The No. 1 Life-boat, Willie and Arthur, put off in tow of the steam-tug...