LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Southern Sun
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 9.40 on the night of the 29th of June, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that a vessel had broken down and was drifting five miles north-east of Ailsa Craig. The life-boat Frank and William Oates was launched...
The Danish Vessel Dangulf Maersk
TWO INJURED MEN At 9.30 a.m. on 2ist March, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that there were two injured men on board the Danish vessel Dangulf Maersk. At 9.35 the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched in a light west-north-westerly...
Pena Rocias
SUNDERLAND, SOUTH OUTLET, DURHAM.
—A large Spanish steamer, the Pena Rocias, of Santander, went ashore at Sunderland on the night of the 4th February. She left the Tees during the afternoon in ballast bound for the Wear. At...
Professo
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. — The Two Sisters Life-boat was launched at 5.30 on the evening of the 2nd October, to the assistance of the brig Professo, of Tvedestrand, Norway, bound from Sundswall for Ramsey, with a cargo of timber. She was lying...
Minnie Elkin
LYDD, DUNGENESS.—The crew of the Lifeboat R.A.O.B. were summoned on the 29th November, during a moderate N.
breeze and hazy weather, signals of distress having been reported. The men promptly assembled, and at 1 A.M.,...
The S.S. Turrethill
— On the 13th May the s.s. Turrethill, of Newcastle- on - Tyne, whilst bound from Goole with a cargo of coal to Poole, Dorset- shire, capsized when off Southwold. A strong W.N.W. wind was blowing at the time, with a rough sea, and unhappily...
Demaris
On the 26th January at 7.35 A.M the Gun- fleet Light-house commenced to fire guns signifying that a vessel was on the sands, and within ten minutes the Life- boat James Stevens No. 14 was on her way to help those on board. The Life- boat had...
Two Ketches, The Witch, of Wave and The Azur
On the 20th February two ketches belonging to Belfast, named the Witch of Wave and the Azur, put into Cloughey Bay when bound for Portaferry. The vessels ex- pected to get away the next morning, but a gale had sprung up and continued blowing...
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St. Mary's, Ides of Scilly.—On the night of the 24th February two doctors, who are members of the local committee, told the honorary secretary that they had examined a serious appendicitis case, and had decided that the man must be got...
Isa Simpson and Sunbeam
Courdon, Kincardineshire.—At about 3.30 P.M., on the 19th January, 1939, a report was received from Johnshaven that the local fishing boats Isa Simpson and Sunbeam were at sea, and that owing to the bad weather they were making for Gourdon...