LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eileen M and a Dinghy
Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 7.12 a.m.
on 12th January, 1966, the coastguard at Portpatrick informed the honorary secretary that the tanker Eileen M of London was ashore on the Mull of Oa. The lifeboat Francis W. Wotherspoon...
Shearwater
Swanage, Dorset. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 31st of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a helicopter had seen a yacht flying a red flag five miles south-south-west of Anvil Point. A fishing...
Crescence
Seaham, Durham.—At 9.45 on the night of the 13th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned a message from Cullercoats Radio Station that a vessel was in distress, four miles east of Seaham Harbour, and the life-boat Elizabeth Witts Allen was...
Past and Present
25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT December 1965 Scottish Station Closed The life-boat station at Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, was closed on 30th September. The life-boat had not been called out on service for nearly four years, and it...
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Gustaf E. Ruter (1)
Nov. 26TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. At 2.45 A . M . a message was received at Lerwick from the coastguard that the Swedish steamer Gustaf E. Ruter, of Gotenburg, was under observation fourteen miles W.N.W. of Fair Island. A whole gale...
Gustaf E. Ruter
Nov. 26TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. At 2.45 A . M . a message was received at Lerwick from the coastguard that the Swedish steamer Gustaf E. Ruter, of Gotenburg, was under observation fourteen miles W.N.W. of Fair Island. A whole gale...
Panther
THE GOODWINS SPARE A SHIP As described on page 126, the Goodwin Sands seldom spare vessels that run aground. But occasionally they are lucky. At 3.36 p.m. on 30th March, 1971, the Walmer honorary secretary picked up a message reporting that...
A Fishing Boat (1)
On the morning of 8th April messages were received from the Coastguard and Police that a fishing boat was in distress in the Rock Channel. The No. 1 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Anne Miles left her moorings at 11.45 A.M. in a moderate N.W....
Fishing Cobles
Three of the fishing cobles belonging to Whitby were overtaken by severe weather on the 10th June, and as their return to port could only be accomplished with great risk, the No. 1 Lifeboat, Robert and Mary Ellis, was launched about 10 A.M.,...
A Longshore Boat and a Motor Boat
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 2.39 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a party of naturalists had gone to Scroby Sands in a longshore boat and a small motor boat in the...