LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary Ann
During a moderate W.N.W. gale and rough sea j on the 8th April the sprit sail barge I Mary Ann, of Rochester, stranded on the North East Buxey Sands, and the Motor Life-boat Albert Edward was dispatched to the assistance of those on...
Successor
At 9 P.M. on the 24th January a vessel was observed on the Barber Sands. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat, Covent Garden, were mustered, and in very cold snowy weather the boat was launched. The wind was moderate, but the sea was heavy on the...
Random Harvest
Montrose, Angus. During the after- noon of the llth of September, 1959, reports reached Montrose that the fishing boat Random Harvest had been in collision and was being escorted into harbour by the Aberdeen trawler Strathlossie. At 4.40 it...
Life-Boat Up Thames
The paragraph headed 'Life-boat Up Thames' on page 149 of the July Journal referred, of course, to Kingston and Surbiton. It had been planned that those mentioned should be there, but in fact they were not, and the 'mystery...
Category: Branches
Grand Bonny, of Liverpool
During a strong gale, on the night of the 3rd November, the ship Grand Bonny, of Liverpool, went ashore opposite the Waterloo Coast Guard Station.
She exhibited blue-lights and other signals of distress, and on their being...
Alma
DUNDEE.—On the 5th October, it having been reported that a barque was ashore on the Abertay Sands, the Buddonness Life-boat Eleanora, and the English Mechanic Life-boat stationed at Broughty Ferry, proceeded to the sands and found the barque...
Wavell
Lowestoft, Suffolk. — On the night of the llth of November, 1951, the coast- guard reported that a man had seen red flares from a boat about a mile south of the harbour and three hundred yards from the shore, and at 8.30 the life-boat...
Pilot Me and Gem
FISHING BOATS ESCORTED IN Whitby, Yorkshire. — Early in the morning of February 19th, 1947, two fishing boats, the Pilot Me and the Gem, put to sea in moderate weather. Later the sea became heavy, making it very dangerous for boats to enter...
None
Aith, Shetlands.—At 2.35 on the after- noon of the 2nd of October, 1953, the doctor at Walls rang up to say there was a case of serious illness on the island of Papa Stour, and the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to take him to the...
Catherine
During a strong E.N.E. gale on the 12th May the fishing boat Catherine, of Arbroath, whilst returning to Harbour was in considerable danger owing to the heavy sea running, and there was some proba- bility of her being dashed on to the rocks....