LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Fishing Vessel Jane Harbo
Lerwick, Shetlands - At 3.36 a.m. on 8th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Danish fishing vessel Jane Harbo had requested urgent medical assistance for a member of her crew who had been involved in an...
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Barmouth, Merionethshire - At 11.40 a.m. on i6th February, 1967, cattle were reported to be trapped by the incoming tide among the groynes and rocks to the north of Llanaber Holt, about one and a half miles north of Barmouth. The life-boat...
The S.S. Harmattan
DECEMBER 2ND. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
During the morning a wireless message was received at Holyhead, and telephoned to Moelfre, asking for a life-boat to take a badly-injured man off the S.S. Harmattan.
The...
S.S. Favorit
NOVEMBER 17TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 10.20 A.M. the police asked for the services of the life-boat to land a badly wounded man from a steamer in the roadstead. The sea was rough, with a moderate S.S.W. breeze...
True Vine, of Fraserburgh
OCTOBER 1ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At noon the Gorleston coastguard reported a drifter on Scroby Sands, flying a distress signal. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing, with a swell. The motor life-boat Louise Stephens...
Tiger Lily, of Blyth
FEBRUARY 10TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
About 10.45 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was in difficulties half a mile east of Blyth pier, and at eleven o’clock the motor life-boat Joseph Adlam was...
Snowdrop
MAY 30TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At nine o’clock in the morning the coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel ashore at Scotstown Head.
The sea was smooth, but there was a dense fog. The motor life-boat Julia...
Penguin
AUGUST 14TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At noon information was received from a resident of Millisle and the coastguard, that a small yacht, with two boys aboard. had broken from her moorings and was two miles off Ballywhiskin, drifting swiftly...
Annie Marie
NAIRN, N.B.—At about noon on the 20th January, information was received that a ship had gone ashore at Fort George, about seven miles W. of Nairn.
The Caulfield and Ann Life-boat went to her assistance, and on reaching the...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
BALLYCOTTON,CO. COEK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the 28th January, 1883, the barque Argo, of Sunderland, was sighted off Bally- cotton, making for Cork harbour, close- hauled, the wind then blowing very hard from the S.S.W., with heavy rain. On...
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