LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dyrhaug
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 9.42 on the evening of the 16th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man living in Lerwick had heard on his radio a Norwegian motor fishing vessel asking for help as she was ashore on...
Ben Macdui
Rockets were fired from the Wold Lightship, and the Cockle Light afterwards fired guns and rockets, during a light N.N.W. breeze on the night of the 16th December. At 10 o'clock the Caister No. 1 Life-boat, Covent Garden, was launched...
Clachnacuddin
On the 19th April, at 10 15 A.M., the barquentine Clachnacuddin, 'ofGuernsey, coal laden from Shields for Jersey, was observed in the fog, apparently stranded on the Scroby Sand. The fog liftiog a little, signals were fired by the Cockle...
Young John
WEXFORD.—In the afternoon of the 10th February, while a strong gale was blowing from the N.W. with a rough sea, signals of distress were shown by the fishing lugger Young John, of St. Ives, which had left Wexford on her homeward journey two...
Miranda
Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 2.5 in the afternoon, on the 22nd of September, 1950, a fisherman reported that a yacht was in difficulties. She had lost her mainsail, and was close inshore, going towards Weybourne. Then she altered course and...
Interwave
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk and Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 8.4 a.m. on 13th March, 1970, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Interwave was aground on the Cross Sands bank. The Great Yarmouth and...
Michel Swenden and Adrian Letzer (1)
Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Clac- ton-on-Sea, Essex. — At 1.12 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard reported that a message had been received from the North Foreland radio station that the motor...
H.M.S. St. Kitts
Portrush, Co. Antrim-.—On the llth of July, 1951, H.M.S. St. Kitts was visiting Portrush. Two ratings went ashore for stores; but sudden bad weather prevented them going aboard again with them. The St. Kitts' Com- manding Officer...
A Dinghy
Poole, Dorset.—At 1.55 early on the morning of the 7th of July, 1957, a telephone message was received from the police that a dinghy, which three youths had hired the evening before, was missing from Rockby Sands. At 2.15 the life-boat...
A Yacht (7)
Kinghorn, Fife. At approximately 8 p.m. on igth August, 1965, a yacht was seen to capsize half a mile south-west of the station. At 8.2 the IRB launched in a gentle westerly breeze and corresponding sea. She came up with the yacht and took...