LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sarah, of Sunderland
About half-past three o'clock on the morning of the 25th Janu- ary, while the wind was blowing strongly from the east, and during a heavy snow- storm, the brig Sarah, of Sunderland, bound from that port to Southampton with coal, and...
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Boy on rocks FOUR MEMBERS of the 1LB crew were working at Tramore pier, Co. Waterford, close by the boathouse at 7 p.m. on June 28, 1973, when a youth came up, greatly agitated, to tell them that a boy had been trapped on a small rock islet...
Rowing Boats
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 12.30 in the afternoon, on the 20th of August, 1950, a resident telephoned that rowing boats were in difficulties outside the harbour.
At 12.40 the life-boat Lily Glen- Glasgow, left her...
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Free Lance
JUNE 9TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
About 10.40 at night it was reported that the naval cadet boat Free Lance (a converted life-boat) was dragging her anchors north of New Brighton pier. A fresh westerly wind was blowing,...
Torborg
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 12.30 P.M. on the 17th November, 1937, the coastguard reported a small vessel anchored about a mile east of Brown's Point, Cullercoats, apparently with engine trouble. The weather was bad, and the...
Wiema
St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 6.20 on the morning of the 10th Decem- ber, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Wiema of Groningen had developed a heavy list through her cargo...
Myrtle
Howth, Co. Dublin,—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 15th of October, 1949, the life-boat R'.P.L. was launched for exercise in a rough sea, with a fresh south-westerly wind blowing, and shortly after noticed a fishing boat one mile east of...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 7.0 on the evening of the 14th of November, 1952, a doctor asked if the life-boat would take him to the Island of Rhum to attend a sick person. The weather was too bad for the usual boat to put out, and at 7.30...
Capella
DUNGENESS (LTDD).—The Life-boat B.A.O.S. was launched at 1.40 A.M., on the llth April, while a moderate gale was blowing from W., accompanied by a rough sea, and proceeded to the assistance of the barque Oapella, of Bremen, which, while...