LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Janes
IRVINE, AYRSHIRE. — The deputy harbour master, about 10 P.M. on the 2nd February, informed the Coxswain of the Life-boat Jane Anne that a vessel was on the beach to the north of the bar showing flares. The crew were summoned, the Life-boat...
Porthcawl
On the 14th September the Hais- borough coastguard passed the news that a vessel about two miles south of Haisborough, and heading south, was on fire. She was the steamer Porthcavol. of Cardiff, bound with a cargo of esparto grass from North...
Sleuth Hound
Two men who had gone out at 1 P.M. on the 23rd June for a few hours' pleasure fishing in the motor boat Sleuth Hound were overtaken by a thick fog. As they did not return it was thought that they had landed somewhere along the coast, but...
Loch Fergus
KINGSTOWN.—The barque Loch Fergus, of Liverpool, bound from Glasgow for Brisbane with a general cargo, stranded in Killiney Bay in thick weather, moderate gale from S.E. and a rough sea, on the morning of the 6th February. A tug attempted to...
Ian Ventham,
Ian Ventham, former head of fundraising and marketing. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr Bill Shanks
NOVEMBER 1989: Mr Bill Shanks, founder member of Silloth branch in 1960 and souvenir secretary from 1969 to 1985. He was awarded a silver badge in 1984..
Category: Obituaries
Frederick Carel (1)
RAMSGATE and DEAL. — Signals were made by the Goodwin and Gull lightships, during a fresh S.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 31st of October.
At the same time a large flare was seen in the direction of the...
Anmara (2)
Long Search THE STERN TRAWLER Anmara and her crew of three were reported overdue from Scarborough on the evening of May 21, 1987 and a search was organised by Humber Coastguard, to begin at first light on the following day.
Middlesex Trader
INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 4.30 on the morning of the 16th May, 1963, a message was received from the motor vessel Middlesex Trader of London, on passage from Montreal to Gdynia, stating that she was off...
A Dinghy (5)
PorfhdinJlaen, Caernarvonshire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1958, a message was re- ceived from the coastguard that a small dinghy was in difficulties north-east of Porthdinllaen Point. The life-boat Charles Henry...