LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Constance Bowater
St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At 3 p.m. on 22nd October, 1965, a message was received via Land's End radio from the motor vessel Constance Bowater that she had a seriously ill seaman aboard and requested that he be taken off and sent to...
Noel
On the night of the 15th October the fishing boat NoSl, of Lancaster, bound with a crew of five for Fleetwood, got into diffi- culties in heavy weather. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing,, with a rough and confused sea. The NoBl got out of...
The S.S. Drumhendry
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—The s.s. Drumhendry, of Glasgow, bound from Ballydonegan Bay, Co. Cork, to Hayle, with dynamite and other explosives, in attempting to come into Hayle at about 2 P.M.
on the 29th April, was driven on the...
Wild Goose
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 11.30 on the night of the 4th of September, 1959 the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a distress signal had been seen between two and three miles west-south-west of Towyn. At 11.45 the life-boat...
Scarborough August 1 1987:
SCARBOROUGH, August 1, 1987: the 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia arrives back at Scarborough with the 38ft yacht Tin Fish which she had towed 24 miles after the vessel's engines had failed. A force 5/6 north-westerly wind at the... - View image in PDF
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The Saint
LYNMOUTH, NORTH DEVON.—A schooner, The Saint, of Euncorn, bound from France for Portmadoc with hay, straw, and ballast, having been dismasted off The Smalls in a N.W. gale on the 5th January, was taken in tow by a large steamer; but on the...
Sark
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—At 12.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of April, 1947, a message was received from the piermaster that a yacht was drifting about two miles offshore and flying distress signals. A south-south-west gale was blowing,...
Ginette, of Audierne
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 10.45 a-mon 18th March, 1967, a French fishing vessel was reported to be in difficulties half a mile north west of St. Ives Head.
The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 11...
Briarbank and Katreen
Buckie, Banffshire.—At 9.15 on the night of the 20th of January, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the local fishing boat Briarbank was tow- ing the fishing boat Katreen to Buckie, but that the weather was becoming worse. Ten minutes...
A Fishing Boat
Clogher Head, Co. Louth. — 23rd January, 1939. A fishing boat was reported in danger on Drogheda Bar,but she went ashore at Nanny River and her crew were able to land unaided.
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