LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
M.F.V. Wakefield
FISHING VESSEL AGROUND IN FOG Whitby, Yorkshire. At 7.15 on the evening of Friday the 5th of July, 1963, the honorary secretary was told that the m.f.v. Wakefield was ashore in dense fog a mile and a half north of...
New Appointments
Mr. Laurence C. H. Cave, a member of the Committee of Management since 1947, has been elected a Vice-President of the Institution. His election took place in December, 1964. Mr. Cave became a member of the finance committee in 1947 and...
Category: Committee
None (1)
Stranded wildfowlers TWO WILDFOWLERS stranded by the flooding tide on Black Rocks, south of Troon Harbour, were reported to the honorary secretary of Troon lifeboat station by Clyde Coastguard at 0933 on Monday December 8, 1980. A third...
Zurich
PALLING-BY-THE-SEA, NORFOLK. — On the 13th August, during a fresh wind from the S.E., the British Workman Lifeboat, on this Station, was launched to the assistance of the barque Zurich, of North Shields, which had stranded o u Hasborongh...
Maria, of Dunedin
The ship Maria, of Dunedin, came ashore here during a fresh wind from the 8.E., on the 22nd Jan. An effort was made by the crew to get her off; but a gale springing up from the E., ac- companied by a heavy sea, placed their lives in great...
Florence, of Nova Scotia
Again, on the 13th April a brigantine, which proved to be the Florence, of Annapolis, Nova Scotia, with a cargo of salt, was observed with a flag of dis- tress flying, grounded on the Long Bank, about six miles from the entrance to Wex- ford...
Florance, of Nova Scotia
The Carnsore Life-boat, the Iris, also proceeded to the last named vessel, and assisted to lighten her and get her afloat..
Ark
CLOVELLY.—During a moderate gale from the N., squally weather, and a heavy sea, on the 7th December, the ketch Ark, of Bridgwater, bound from Lydney for Bnde with a cargo of coal, showed a signal of distress while at anchor in the roadstead....
None (4)
Galway Bay. At 7.15 on the morning of the 26th of February, 1959, the local doctor requested the use of the life- boat to take a child, who had pushed a nail up his nostril, to the mainland for hospital treatment. The life-boat Mabel Marion...
Penny II
St. Ivcs, Cornwall. At 3.30 p.m. on 7th July, 1964, a member of the inshore rescue boat crew saw the sailing dinghy Penny II capsize off St. Ives pier, throwing the two occupants into the water. The inshore rescue boat immediately launched...