LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Speed Boats
OCT. 18TH. - EXMOUTH, AND TORBAY, DEVON. A message was received at 7.25 P .M. from the R.A.F. that two of their speedboats had broken down twelve miles S.W. of Beer Head, and the motor lifeboat was launched with the help of...
Kate Cowie
MARCH 15TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
At about 10.15 A.M. news was received through the coastguard that a fishing boat was on fire to the west of May Island.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing, with a...
Pirouttie
YACHT WAS AGROUND At 10.7 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, a local resident informed the honorary secretary that a white flare had been seen at the entrance to Morar bay. It was halftide with a moderate sea and a gentle south-westerly breeze. At 10...
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Thomas and Catherine Latham
During a strong S. gale on the 13th October, signals of distress were shown by the schooner Thomas, of and from Liverpool, for Amlwch, laden with coal, which was lying at anchor in Bed Wharf Bay.
The crew of the Life-boat...
The H.M.S. Hannibal
'At 5 P.M. on the 6th December a telephone message was received from H.M.S. Hannibal request- ing the Life-boat to proceed to the as- sistance of a vessel which had stranded on the Skerries. The Motor Life-boat John A. Hay was dispatched...
The S.S. Brinkburn
The S.S. Brinkburn; of London, with twenty- two men on board, whilst bound from Antwerp to Cardiff in ballast on the 24th February, stranded on the Good- win Sands near the S.E. buoy. The weather at the time was threatening, and the Charles...
Empress of India
The No. 1 Life- boat Covent Garden was launched at 1.45 P.M. on the 4th September, the Coastguard having reported a vessel was making distress signals. It transpired that the ketch barge Empress of India, of. Ipswich, whilst bound from...
Gem
DIFFICULT TOWS Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.5 in the morning of the 28th of November, 1947, the life-boat coxswain picked up a message on his wireless from the local motor fishing vessel Gem, that her rudder had been broken, and the No. 1 motor...
Craignair
Torbay, Devon.—At 7.42 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, the Babbacombe Corinthian Sailing Club informed the Berry Head coastguard that a vessel was flying a distress signal a mile and a half east of Oddicombe, and the coastguard informed the life...