LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Whaler
The Lizard, Cornwall. — At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the police at Mullion that a sailing whaler, with a crew of six from the Royal Naval...
Vert Prairial
Penlee, Cornwall.—At seven o'clock on the morning of the 14th of March, 1956, the Tol-Pedn-Penwith coast- guard rang up to say that a trawler had been wrecked at Wireless Point, Porthcurno. At 7.15 the life-boat W. and S. was launched....
Hassel (1)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent.—At 4.13 on the morning of the 3rd of May, 1956, the Lade coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Dungeness to say the motor vessel Hassel, of Bergen, Norway, had been in collision with an unknown vessel...
Ocean Star (1)
Valentia, and Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 4.30 in the morning, on the 1st of August, 1950, the Valentia life-boat authorities received a telephone message from the Dingle Civic Guard. The local motor fishing vessel Ocean Star, with a crew of two,...
The Navy Entertains Life-Boatmen
WHEN the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight life-boat went to the help of the schooner Lamorna, on the 4th of November, 1951, and rescued her crew of fourteen (as described on page 308), H.M.S. Redpole, which had had the Lamorna in tow, was standing by...
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The Ex-Naval Motor Torpedo Boat Marlene Dolores
EX-TORPEDO-BOAT DRIFTING Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 4.40 in the afternoon of the 7th of September, 1947, information was received by wireless, telegraph and telephone that a motor vessel had been seen drifting by the steamer Eddystone, when off...
St. Clair
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 7.50 in the evening of the 23rd of August, 1949, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler St. Clair, of Grimsby, was ashore. The crew of the life-boat Thomas McCunn assembled, but about three-quarters...
The Latvian Steamer Mars
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—On the morning of the 19th May the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was ashore at North Ness, May Island. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a strong swell, and the weather was thick. The motor life-boat...
Linda
Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1960, when the life-boat crew were in the boathouse after an exercise, the coxswain received a report from the owner of the fishing boat Linda that he had lent the boat to...
Britta
Dover, Kent. At 7.8 on the evening of the 15th of February, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that the Swedish motor vessel Britta of Helsingborg, which had been in col- lision with the Italian tanker Mirella d'Amico...