LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inverclyde
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—On the 15th September the Kinnaird Head coastguard reported a vessel ashore on Cairnbulg Briggs making signals of distress.
The weather was very thick, the sea calm and the wind easterly. At 2...
Cambrian
Dungeness, Kent. — At 9.15 on the morning of the 29th of October, 1950, the Ramsgate coastguard reported that the motor cruiser Cambrian had asked for the help of the life-boat; and at 9.23 the Charles Cooper Henderson was launched...
Taffy
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.45 P.M. on the 29th July, 1938, the nightwatchman at St. Sampson's Harbour received a message, flashed in morse from the Great Western Railwaysteamer Sambur, that shouts for help had been heard from a boat...
Seriality
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 17th of August, 1957, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the M.V. Seriality, of London, that her first officer had...
Clarinda
Hastings, Sussex.—At 8.34 on the morning of the llth of September, 1957, the Fairlight coastguard tele- phoned to sav a cabin cruiser was burning flares off Fairlight look-out.
At 9.2 the life-boat M.T.C. was launched....
Emblem
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. On her way to her station from the building yard at Cowes the new Mallaig life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin was making the passage from Donaghadee to Campbeltown on the 25th of October, 1957, when a May Day...
None (8)
Torbay, Devon. At 8.5 on the evening of the 3rd of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a boy was trapped on the side of a cliff at Berry Head and that coastguards with rescue apparatus were searching for him....
Morning Star
MORE LOBSTER FISHERS IN DISTRESS Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At about 1.15 in the afternoon of the 21st of August, 1947, the civic guard reported that the salmon yawl Morning Star, of Helvick, which had been lobster fishing, was in...
Captain Andrew Stephen, of Fraserburgh
CAPTAIN ANDREW STEPHEN, harbour- master of Fxaserburgh, who died on the 30th of December, 1948, was joint honorary secretary of the life-boat station for over eleven years. He was appointed towards the end of 1936, and retired at the...
Category: Obituaries
The Sailing Boat Olive
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 9.30 on the night of the 14th of August, 1955, the police reported that a woman and her two sons, who were on holiday in Falmouth, had put off in the local sailing boat Olive the morning before for a trip in Falmouth...