LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Christina
On the 17th February, the schooner Christina, of Timmel, bound from Shields for Teignmouth, with coal, was observed ashore on the Hasborough Sands. The Life-boat Hearts of Oak was launched at 10 A.M., in a very heavy sea, the wind blowing a...
Rangor
BY BREECHES BUOY Lerwick, Shetlands. At 1.4 a.m. on iyth January, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that they had fired a warning rocket and that a fishing vessel which had gone near the Ness of Sound had stopped and burnt a...
Tourquet
The steam trawler Touqtiet, of Boulogne, ran ashore in a dangerous position at Moor Sands, about one mile west of Prawle Point, on the llth April. She had a cargo of fish on board, and carried a crew of twenty-two. Only a light southerly...
A Sailing Dinghy
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. — About 9.10 on the night of Sunday the 3rd of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy with a crew of two had apparently been caught in the tide race between Giltar Point and Caldy Island. Her sail...
A Motor Dinghy
TOO LIGHTLY CLAD Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 10.30 p.m. on 2yth August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a small fibreglass outboard motor dinghy had left the Warren caravan camp at 2 p.m. with four people on board to fish off the St....
Garibaldi J.
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 10.15 a-m- on 15th December, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tug Kendall, towing the inshore fishing vessel Garibaldi J. from Rotterdam to Lowestoft, had run aground on the Newcombe...
Queen Margaret
On the 5th May, in a moderate breeze and smooth sea, the barque Queen Margaret, of Glasgow, stranded on a submerged reef of rocks to the south of the Lizard.
The vessel was a large four-masted barque of nearly 2,000 tons,...
A Fishing Boat
BOARDING BOAT VEERED TO STRANDED BOAT AppJedore, Devon. On the 2nd April, 1962, the coxswain of the life-boat and other fishermen had returned earlier than usual from salmon fishing because of bad weather. The salmon fishing season had just...
Commot, of Whitby
On the 30th September, whilst the schooner Commot, of Whitby, bound from Lowestoft to Sea- ham, in ballast, was riding at anchor in Sandsend Roads, the wind suddenly changed from N.W. to N. by E., causing the vessel to part from one anchor....
Inga
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 11.15 on the night of the 4th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Inga of Helsingborg, Sweden, was anchored in Branahuie Bay three miles from Stornoway and had a very...