LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Beta
Sunderland, Durham.—At nine o'clock on the night of the 4th of January, 1949, when a light north-easterly wind was blowing, with a slight swell, the Dutch motor vessel Beta was reported by the coastguard to be signalling "not under...
Alpha
Girvan, Ayrshire. — At 4.40 in the afternoon of the 20th of March, 1949, the Alpha, of Stranraer, a ketch with an auxiliary engine, was seen to be at anchor three miles south of the har- bour. It looked as if her engines had broken down. A...
Tranquillity
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 9.30 on the morning of the 22nd of July, 1954, the Walney Island coastguard telephonedthat a fishing vessel was reported to have been at anchor five miles north- by-east of Selker buoy since the prev- ious afternoon...
None
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 17th of July, 1955,the life-boat coxswain reported that ten people were marooned on the rocks a mile and a half to the west of New Quay. Ten minutes later the life-boat St. Albans was...
None
Alth, Shetlands. — At ten in the morning of the 10th of March, 1952, a doctor at Walls asked if the life-boat would take him to the island of Foula where a woman was seriously ill. The weather was too bad for an ordinary boat to put out. The...
A Sailing Dinghy
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 6.55 in the evening of the 1st of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a fourteen- feet international class sailing dinghy, with a crew of two, had capsized half a mile south-east of the harbour, and at 7.15...
None (2)
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 14th of Novem- ber, 1952, the Holyhead coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from a doctor on Bardsey Island asking for the life-boat to take a seriously sick...
The S.S. Spring
At 6.45 A.M.
on the 19th April information was given to the Coxswain of the Life-boat, Samuel Plimsoll that a vessel was ashore on the Newcome Sands. He immediately proceeded to the beach, and seeing the vessel's...
Sir William Martin, J.P., F.S.A. (Scot.), Late Organizing Secretary for Scotland
Sir Will'""' Martin.
The Committee of Management, the Staff of the Institution and the many friends of the Life-boat Service in Scotland, learnt with very deep regret of the death of Sir William Martin, on...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Eglantine
— Shortly after 10 A.M. on the 9th October, during a thick fog, information was received that a large steamer was ashore near the Cross Sand Light vessel. The No. I Life-boat was manned and proceeded in tow of a tug to the Cross Sand, where...