LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ENGINES STOPPED AND SAILS BLOWN AWAY Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—After four fish- ing boats had gone out in the morning of the 1st of May, 1947, a strong off- shore wind sprang up. All the boats were dragging their trawls before the wind when the...

On the even- ing of the 18th August the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore five hundred yards S.E. of the Billow Ness look-out hut. She was the steam trawler Gareloch, of Aberdeen, bound home from Methil after coaling, and was...

NOVEMBER 2 3RD. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 3.5 P.M. a telephone message came from the Tynemouth coastguard, asking for the crew to stand by.

A few minutes later the life-boat was directed to go to a position one and...

Galway Bay. At 5.30 p.m. on i8th February, 1966, the local medical officer of health informed the honorary secretary that he had taken a woman patient from Inishmaan Island to Kilronan in a small fishing boat, but due to weather conditions...

Injured fisherman LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Barrow lifeboat station at 2232 on Monday July 16, 1979, that there was an injured crew member aboard the motor fishing vessel Vertrouwen, 18 miles west of Walney...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 6.42 on the evening of the 17th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Trinity House vessel Mermaid, which had a sick man aboard, was making for Yarmouth roads...

Blyth, Northumberland. — At nine o'clock on the night of the 4th of Jan- uary. 1957. the coastguard telephoned to say the North Seaton police had re- ported that the fishing boat Trojan Star.

with a crew of two. had put...

Minehead: The Royal Corps of Transport is taking an Atlantic 21 into service on a target range off the Hebrides. Last December a detachment of men was sent to Minehead for exercises in launching and recovery with ILB crew members; it is one...