LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Minerva
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—Whilst running for the harbour, on the evening of the 7th December, the ketch Minerva, of Bridgwater, bound from Hayle for Bristol with sand, and the steamer Bride, of Hayle, with coal and coke, struck on the western spit of...
Girl Evelyn
DESTROYED BY HEAVY SEAS Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 8.53 on the night of the 2nd of November, 1947, the coast- guard reported a distress flare seen off the harbour and it was thought that the motor fishing boat Girl Evelyn, of Deganwy, known to be...
Mary Anne
Ferryside, Carmarthenshire.—At about 1.30 in the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1948, the Tenby coastguard telephoned that a bod'y had been washed ashore at Ferryside that morn- ing, and the motor fishing vessel Mary Anne, of Swansea,...
A Boat
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of September, 1950, two men from a Shipbreaking Company were inspecting a wreck in Campbeltowii Loch. While they were aboard, a sudden gale sprang up from the south, with torrential...
Ocean Star
Fenit, Co. Kerry - At 11.10 p.m. on 21st October, 1968, the honorary secretary was informed that a fishing boat was ashore at Waherees. The life-boat Hilton Briggs slipped her moorings at 11.45. It was low water.
By means...
A Motor Boat
FAILED TO START At 9.15 p.m. on the following day, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat appeared to have broken down between the North pier and Wreck buoy, and the crew were waving for help. Two minutes...
1165
JANUARY 20TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
After dark the naval motor fishing vessel 1165 ran on Corton Beach, and the mate scrambled ashore to get help. At 10.35 the coastguard informed the life-boat station, and at 10.47 the...
Veluna, of Liverpool
On the 19th October, the^same life-boat put off', during stormy. weather, to the rescue of the crew of a vessel which was observed to be stranded on the Long Bank.
On arriving alongside, they found that the only...
Harwich
Shortly after four in the morning of 8th December information was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was burning flares. Fifteen minutes later the Motor Life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched. A fresh S.W. by W....
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