LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (1)
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—-About noon on the 9th of November, 1949, a strong south-easterly gale arose, and conditions at the harbour entrance became so bad that the danger signal was hoisted. All the fishing boats were at sea, so the...
Promise
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—-At half past six on the night of the 7th of De- cember, 1949, it was learned that the local fishing boat Promise, was overdue.
The relatives of the crew of three were anxious for their safety....
Ocean Star (1)
Valentia, and Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 4.30 in the morning, on the 1st of August, 1950, the Valentia life-boat authorities received a telephone message from the Dingle Civic Guard. The local motor fishing vessel Ocean Star, with a crew of two,...
Livre
A CAREFUL WATCH Sheringham, Norfolk. — During the early morning of the 21st of September, 1947, a motor ketch left Yarmouth for Wisbech, in fine weather, but the wind got up, and when, about 10 o'clock, she was off Sheringham, she was...
Vega
EMPTY YACHT ADRIFT Wicklow.—At 10.80 in the morning of the 10th of November, 1947, the owner of the sailing yacht Vega, of Wicklow, reported that his yacht was adrift 5 miles to the east and, as no other boat was available, asked for the...
Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 5.15 in the morning of the 1st of November, 1948, a vessel was seen to be signalling by searchlight. The coastguard signalled her and she replied with red flares. A south-westerly gale was blowing, with a...
Neptunia (1)
Longhope, Orkneys, and Thurso, Caithness- shire.— On the 21st February the French trawler Neptunia ran aground, and her crew of forty-one were rescued by the Longhope lifeboat.
The Thurso life-boat was also...
Coxswain Thomas Kyle, of Holy Island
Coxswain Thomas Kyle, proprietor of the Castle Hotel, Holy Island, who died in October, 1937, at the age of sixty-four, had served as coxswain of the Holy Island life-boats for two years, and as second coxswain for over twenty years. During...
Category: Obituaries
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Barra Island, Hebrides.—On the 21st January, 1938, the medical officer at Castlebay received an urgent call to the neighbouring island of Vatersay. A strong westerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and no ordinary boatcould make the...
Helping Hand
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 11.5 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a trawler had engine trouble between no. 2 and no. 3 buoys eight miles off Tenby. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was...