LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Keel Boat Courage
SEA ANCHOR PUT ABOARD KEELBOAT Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 6th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the keelboat Courage intended to put into Scarborough harbour because of the severe weather...
Abeja
At 1 A.M. on the 4th November it was reported that a schooner was in distress near Gribbin Head and wanted assistance. The Life-boat James William and Caroline Courtney was launched and proceeded to the position indicated, where she...
Theway
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 1.19 early on the morning of the 9th of Novem- ber, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Theway was ashore on the north end of Mousa. As the life-boat crew were assembling a further...
Monrose
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 7.29 a.m. on 31st August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sick man aboard the motor vessel Monrose needed medical attention.
The IRB, with a doctor on board, was launched at...
Elizabeth, of Llanelly
At daylight on the llth April the schooner Elizabeth, of Llanelly, was discovered in a dangerous position, on a lee shore, 5 miles from this station. It was blowing a gale from the N.E. at the time, accompanied by heavy. squalls of snow: and...
Contents
Notes of the Quarter 75 Contents Lifeboat Services 77 V OlUme .X.L VII Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 83 Number 473 HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, by Jeff Morris 88 Naming Ceremonies: Falmouth, Tynemouth,...
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The S.S. Miltrap
Holy Island, Northumberland. •—• At 8.8 P.M. on the 22nd September, 1939, it was reported by the coastguard that a vessel was showing signals of distress near the Plough Seat Rocks. A fresh N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy swell. The...
A Firefly Aeroplane (2)
Cromarty, Whitehills, and Buckle, Banffshire.—About 1.30 in the after- noon of the 4th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Guiding Star returned to Whitehills with wreckage of a Firefly aeroplane which she reported had crashed about three and a...
Blenheim
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 8.26 in the morning of the 19th of October, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing vessel had anchor- ed half a mile off shore in Rackwick Bay and was blowing her siren. At 8.50 the life-boat...