LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ocean Starlight
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 1.40 a.m. on 19th March, 1969, the honorary secretary learnt that the fishing boat Ocean Starlight was ashore on the rocks at the entrance to Mallaig harbour. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin slipped her...
An Aeroplane (97)
JUNE 23RD. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea and her pilot had baled out, but he was picked up by a boat which had put out from the shore. - Rewards, £11 10s..
Meet Clifton Close Harmony
Meet Clifton Close Harmony whose successful fortnight's tour of Torbay last summer netted £1,357 for the RNLI. The octet, made up from Anthony Newman, teacher at Clifton College, and seven pupils, most still recovering from... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Britannia
On the 25th September, during a thick fog, signals of distress were heard, and the Life-boat Forster Fawsett was dis- patched as quickly as possible. Near the Crumstone Rock, Fame Island, she found the s.s. Britannia,...
None (7)
FEBRUARY 8TH. - KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL. A flashing light had been reported, but it was found to come from a dan (a buoy with a flag or a light attached), belonging to a trawler engaged in fishing.- Rewards, £13 2s. 6d.
The S.S. Gothland
AUGUST 2 8 T H . - B A L T I M O R E , C O .CORK. The S.S.. Gothland. of Leith. had been sunk by enemy action, and part, of the crew had landed on Dursey Island. The captain and eighteen men were making for land farther north A search was...
Deirdre
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 11.25 on the night of the 23rd of June, 1955, the Skerries Sailing Club reported that the 17-feet yacht Deirdre, of Rush, with a crew of two, had left Rush at seven o'clock for Skerries, but wasnow drifting...
A Rubber Float
AUGUST 14TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE.
A girl had been reported to have been carried out to sea on a rubber float, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £14 1s. 9d..
Marjansu
Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.50 on the evening of the 1st of December, 1959, the watchman at the east pier informed the honorary secretary that two motor boats, which had left the harbour earlier in the day, had not returned as expected. Visibility...
Gudveig of Oslo (1)
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, Suf- folk. At 4.59 on the morning of the 24th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Gorleston station that the motor vessel Gudveig of Oslo...