LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dunottar Castle
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 8.20 on the evening of the 17th of November, 1959, the parents of two fishermen aboard the motor fishing vessel Dunottar Castle told the honorary secretary they were worried about their sons, who had left early in...
Miriam
Wicklow. At 10.30 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1959, the local fishing boat Miriam had not returned although she had left harbour at four o'clock. As the weather was deteriorating the life-boat /. W. Archer was launched at...
Eagle Book of Ships
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Fishing Cobles (2)
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 11.45 on the morning of the 1st of February, 1960, the life-boat /. G. Graves of Sheffield was launched in a light south- easterly wind and a rough sea, as five local fishing cobles were at sea and the weather was...
None (3)
Flamborough, Yorkshire. — At 4.44 in the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1952, the Flamborough Head coast- guard telephoned that a boy, swim- ming in Thornwick Bay, had been washed on to the rocks below Thorn- wick Bay Camp. The life-boat...
Prince
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 10.12 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht four miles south-south-west of Orford- ness was flying a distress signal. The life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 10.26 in a...
Mary Gowans and Trustful III
Aberdeen.—At 4.53 on the afternoon of the 9th of February, 1953, the Gregness coastguard reported that two fishing vessels were making for Aberdeen, as it was too dangerous to enter Stonehaven Harbour. The No.
1 life-boat...
Ros Ruadh
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of April.
1953, the Valentia radio station re- ported that the trawler Ros Ruadh, of Dublin, had broken down four miles north-west of Bray Head, and at...
A Sailing Cutter
Reserve life-boat.—At 9.30 on the 10th of November, 1953, the reserve life- boat Thomas Markby put out from a shipbuilders' yard at Littlehampton in a swell and light south-south-east breeze. She was to undergo machin-ery trials...
Edward
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 6th of December, 1953, the life-boat Tynesider was launched for a routine exercise. On completing the exercise she made for her station again, but when she was nearing Tyne North...