LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thorley
Shortly before 1 P.M. on the 17th April a brig was observed on the Swin Middle Sand. No distress signal could be seen, but the dangerous position of the vessel was considered sufficient to warrant the launching of the Life-boat. The Albert...
Notus and Sunshine
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—-A telephone message was received from the coastguard about 1.30 P.M. on the 18th April stating that a vessel was ashore half-a-mile south of the watch-house. In the absence of the Coxswain, the Assistant Coxswain...
Proba
The schooner Proba, of Dartmouth, whilst bound to Dublin with a cargo of malt, stranded on the 21st January not far from the Life-boat house, and in re- sponse to the signal which she made shortly before stranding, the Life-boat Oldham...
Twins
GIRVAN.—On the forenoon of the 6th February the wind commenced, to blow very strongly with blinding showers of snow. Several fishing-boats returned, but six of them were missing and as it was thought that the snowstorm had prevented their...
Dew-i-wyn
.—At 11.35 A.M.
on the 30th September a telephone message was received at the coastguard's station, Clovelly, from the coastguard at Hartland Point, to the effect that a ketch was showing signals of...
Oswaldian
Redcar, Yorkshire.—While homeward bound for Grimsby, on the morning of the 25th September, 1939, the steam trawler Oswaldian, laden with fish and carrying a crew of eleven, ran ashore on the Salt Scar Rocks off Redcar.
The...
Town & Country Driveways
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Picton Castle
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—About midnight on the 29th of November, 1954, the steam trawler Picton Castle, of Swan- sea, with a crew of ten, entered Balti- more harbour to shelter from a south- easterly gale. The gale veered to the north-north-west...
A Boat (1)
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — 23rd July, 1939. News had been received that an up-turned boat could be seen on Stert Flats, apparently drifting out to sea, with two people clinging to her.
The boat, however, grounded on a...
None (9)
Fowey, Cornwall. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 13th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boys were trapped on the rocks at Portnodler Bay near Looe. At 9.37, when the life-boat Deneys Reitz...