LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The South Rock Lightvessel (1)
Cloughey, and Donaghadee, Co. Down.— At three o'clock in the morning of the 31st of January, 1950, the Tara coast- guard telephoned the Cloughey life- boat authorities that the South Rock lightvessel had fired a white rocket. At 3.15 he...
Westmark
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a boat was making very heavy weather outside Aberdovey bar. The boat was kept under observation but was subsequently lost sight...
David
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER WITH ANGLERS ABOARD Plymouth, Devon. At 8.45 on the evening of the 13th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht needed help near Draystone buoy. There was a moderate breeze...
Adventure
Soon after mid- night on the 30th November it was reported that a fishing boat was burning flares four miles south of Porthleven.
A strong W.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain showers. The motor...
The Longhope, Orkneys Life-Boat on Service
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Category: Photographs
The S.S. Dwight W. Morrow
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—At about 4.30 in the afternoon of the 13th of June, 1948, it was reported that the s.s.
Dwight W. Morrow, of Jacksonville, U.S.A., had wirelessed that she had lost her propeller twelve miles west of...
An American Flying Fortress (2)
SEPTEMBER 17TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 12.25 in the morning the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea one and a half miles north by east of Seahouses. She was an...
Mr. James Hartley Burton, Beaumaris
BY the death of Mr. James Hartley Burton on 16th May, at the age of eighty-one, the Institution has lost an outstanding honorary secretary. He became the honorary secretary of the Penmon, Anglesey, station in 1906, and when that station was...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Glendun
FEBRUARY 16TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 12.30 A.M. it was reported that a steamer was ashore one and a half miles S.W.
of Maughold Head and was making distress signals. A S.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. It was...
The Aberdeen Steam Trawler Scot
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 9.25 in the morning of the 29th of November, 1948, the coastguard re- ported a vessel apparently aground close iivto the south east of the look-out, and the motor life-boat Louise...