LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Shirley
Filey, Yorkshire. — At 5.10 in the evening of the 29th of June, 1948, the coastguard saw the salmon fishing boat Lady Shirley capsize. . A fresh breeze was blowing from the north-north-west with a moderate swell. The .boat was close in shore...
Euclase
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 7.28 on the morning of the 22nd of September, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Euclase, of Granton, had run ashore at Noss Head in dense fog. At 7.50 the life- boat City of Edinburgh was...
Double jeopardy
Two mayday calls in quick succession put Walton and Frinton lifeboat crew on high alert
motoryacht’s two crew issued a mayday just before 1pm on Monday 21 June, after suffering engine failure. The boat was drifting towards...
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Servic
Hartlepool, Co. Durham, and Tees- mouth, Yorkshire. At 5.10 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1957, the South Gare coastguard told the Teesmouth honorary secretary that a vessel was firing rockets one mile north of the breakwater. At 5...
A Rubber Dinghy
DUTCHMEN IN DINGHY Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 10.45 p.m. on 6th October, 1963, five Dutch fishermen left Ballycotton harbour in a rubber dinghy to return to their ship which was anchored with twelve other Dutch trawlers in Ballycotton Bay....
Kings Cross and Athendale
About mid-day on 13th October, the tug King's Cross entered Scrabster Harbour and reported that she had been taking the steamer Athendale, of North Shields, to Glasgow, to be broken up, but that the tow-rope had parted and the steamer...
Anna
At 1.45 on the following afternoon the barque Anna, of Copenhagen, having stranded on the West Gunfleet Sands, the Life-boat was once again taken out, and proceeded to her assistance. It was decided to remain by her until the tide flowed, in...
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A mes- sage was received from the St. David's Coastguard on the morning of the 23rd June that a vessel was in distress near the Smalls Lighthouse. A fresh northerly breeze was blowing with a smooth sea, but the weather was...
Three Fishing Cobles and a Pilot Coble
WHITBY.—At noon on the 20th April, daring calm weather and a heavy sea, three fishing cobles and » Hartlepool pilot coble, the latter with only one man on board, were observed making for Whitby Harbour. It was considered unsafe for them...
Betsy
PALLING, NORFOLK.—The ketch Betsy, of and for Newcastle, from London, with iron, stranded at Palling, during a strong S.E. wind and a heavy sea, on the 1st of March. The No. 1 Life-boat, Good Hope, was promptly launched; but the water was...