LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lorry in limbo
2 October: Hartlepool When a scrap metal lorry rolled forward and was left precariously hanging metres above the waters of Irvine's Quay, Hartlepool Harbour Police asked the RNLI to stand by during the rescue...
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Ruby
Workington, Cumberland.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 6th of September, 1957, it was learnt that the fishing boat Ruby, which had taken two Trinity House engineers out to the South Workington buoy, was adrift near the...
Fairy Glen
Guns and rockets were fired from the Gull and East Goodwin light-vessels at 5 A.M. on the 23rd March, during a strong S.W. wind and a heavy sea. The Bradford Life-boat was towed out by the harbour steam-tug Aid, and found the schooner Fairy...
Florence Myal
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.15 A.M.
on the 4th May, 1938, the coastguard reported a light about six miles S.W.
by S. Watch was kept, and after some time it was decided to send out the motor life-boat...
Marie Flore
MAY 5TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At about midnight on the 4th May information was received from the Padstow coastguard that a convoy had been attacked from the air about ten miles N. by W. of Stepper Point, and that one of...
A Phantom Jet
Phantom jet crew ON FRIDAY, December 5,1975, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Skegness lifeboat station at 1400 that an aircraft had crashed into the sea and that two parachutists had been seen.
The 37'...
Clipper
At ii p.m. on 3rd January, 1965, a message was received by the honorary secretary that a sick man needed to be landed from the German motor vessel Clipper at approx. 4.15 a.m. The life-boat Solomon Browne launched at 3.10 proceeded to Newlyn...
Norway
— Shortly after midnight on the 19th-20th July the steamer Norway, of Christiania, when bound from that place to Grangemouth, with a cargo of pulp and paper, and carrying eleven passengers, got out of her course and stranded off Skateraw.<...
St. Joseph
FISHING BOAT ADRIFT Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.-—During the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1947, the pilot on watch reported that the local motor fishing boat St. Joseph was being carried out to sea by the easterly wind and ebbing tide...
Roden
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 11 o'clock in the morning of the 2nd of December, 1948, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned that a trawler was ashore in the Sound of Islay, and that another trawler was standing by, but could not help. The...