LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Congress Bell and Nancy
Wicklow.—On the afternoon of the 29th September a pilot reported to the coxswain that two fishing boats, about a mile east of Five Mile Point, were flying signals of distress. A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor...
Fishing Boats (2)
O 11 the morning of the 3rd November the local fishing fleet was out and was over- taken by bad weather. The sea rose rapidly, and at 9.15 A.M. a whole S.S.E.
gale was blowing, with a rough sea.
As the...
Gipsy Queen
On the morning of the 13th February, the local motor fishing boat Gipsy Queen, with two men on board, went out sprat-fishing off Fairlight Glen. Her engine broke down; she began to drift; and the men signalled for help. A moderate...
Bessie
NEW BRIGHTON.—The chief officer of coastguard at Blundell Sands reported by telegraph that a steam flat was stranded on Seaforth Beach, on the 5th August.
The vessel was also observed from New Brighton. The steam Life-boat...
Christiana Davis
The schooner Christiana Davis, of Barrow, whilst bound, on 4th March, from [ Queenstown to the Bristol Channel, with a cargo of superphosphate, stranded in Tramore Bay. This occurred shortly before midnight, and the Life-boat Henley was...
Lark
In a strong E.S.E. gale, thick weather, and very choppy sea, on the 13th'December, the steam trawler Lark, belonging to Hull, and bound for that port with a load of fish, stranded on the rocks about five miles north of Flamborough Head...
Roe Cliff
TROON.—A terrific gale of wind from W. to N.W. suddenly sprung] up on the morning of the 1st November, and while the storm was at its height the schooner Roe Cliff, of Skene, bound from Porsgrund, Norway, for Troon, with a cargo of deals and...
Fly, Pride of Rosslare and St. Joseph
PROPELLER FOULED BY NETS Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 7 o'clock on the night of the 31st of December, 1947, flares were seen in South Bay, and the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at 7.20. A strong southerly...
A Motor Launch (1)
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 1.10 in the afternoon -of the 16th of May, 1948, information was received that a vessel was on the Brake Sands and at 1.28 the motor life-boat Prudential left her moorings. A moderate north-easterly gale was...
Fennel
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—About 9.30 on the night of the 9th of October1948, a vessel was seen to enter Dungarvan Harbour, at full speed and run aground on Whitehouse Bank. She was not seen to signal, but telephone messages from...