LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Melanie
Swanage, Dorset.—At 9.20 on the morning of the llth of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht was burning red flares off Chap- man's Pool. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 9.24. There was a rough sea with a heavy...
Venus
Plymouth, Devon.—At5.5 on the morn- ing of the 23rd of March, 1955, the Longroom signal station telephoned that the motor vessel Venus, of Bergen, waiting to embark passengers for Madeira, had wirelessed that she was dragging her anchor in...
Lifeboats on Loch Ness
As if they won’t face enough challenges, the RNLI’s newest crew will be keeping an eye out for monsters as the charity takes over the Coastguard rescue station on Loch Ness.
At the time of writing, a trial was about to...
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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...
Aeolian
StornowSy, Outer Hebrides - At 12.40 p.m. on 28th September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary'that a yacht, which was anchored in Loch Seaforth, had been driven ashore on the south west corner of Seaforth island. At 1...
Snurp VII
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 1.15 early on the morning of the 4th of May, 1957,the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned to say a message had been received that a vessel was ashore in Hoy Sound.
The life-boat Archibald & Alexander M...
Bountiful
TOW FOR FISHING VESSEL AGROUND Lerwick, Shetlands. At 11.45 on the night of the 3rd March, 1963, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Bountiful was ashore on the east side of Shetland Isle....
Rambler and Mary Ann and Francis
On the 2nd Feb.
this Life-boat, the Covent Garden, was launched five times, with a succession of fresh crews, and ultimately succeeded in saving 13 lives from the schooners Ram- Wer, of Wexford, and Mary Ann, of Ply- mouth...
A Sailing Boat (1)
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, and Anstruther,, Fifeshire.—At 7.30 in the evening of the 26th of September, 1948, the Musselburgh police telephoned to the Dunbar life-boat station that a sailing boat with five boys on board had been driven out to...
Krutynia
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.43 on the morning of the 14th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an unidentified coaster was aground near Barrow no. 6 buoy and was believed to need help. A strong north-east was...