LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
S.S. Sea Minstrel
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1950, the Port Medical Officer advised the life- boat coxswain that the cargo vessel S.S.
Sea Minstrel, of Dover, was expected off the port at one o'clock...
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DECEMBER 9TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS. A message was received from Dr. Cruickshank, of Walls, that he had had an urgent call to go to Foula Island. The weather was too rough for the ferry boat to make the passage, and no other vessel was available...
Whitsun
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. — On the evening of the 9th of April, 1956, the motor vessel Whitsun, of Groningen, was discharging a cargo of piles. About 6.35 a heavy ground swell developed, and she parted her lines and began to be driven on...
Lord Mostyn
CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—A messenger reported that a schooner had gone on the rocks at the east side of Cemlyn Bay, at about 5 o'clock on the morning of the 28th July, during a fresh E. wind. The crew of the Life-boat Good Shepherd were at once...
Siglinde
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 5.0 on the evening of the llth of August, 1951, a visitor reported to the police that a barge seemed to be in difficulties off Holland Haven. The police informed the coastguard at Clacton, but as the Clacton...
Le Cygne
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.48 in the evening of the 6th of September, 1949, the East pier shore attendant tele- phoned that a yacht was on the Brake Sands and the life-boat Mary Scott, on. temporary duty at the station, left her moorings at 5.51...
Zephyr
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd of September, 1956, the Penmon coastguard tele- phoned that a cabin cruiser was burning flares one mile west of Puffin Island. Her engine had stopped, and she was in danger of...
Arcade
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Dover, Kent. At 6.15 on the evening of the 16th of July, 1960, the police re- ported that a number of people had been cut off by the tide at Fan Bay.
The life-boat Southern Africa put out, towing her boarding boat, in a...
Snowdrop
MAY 30TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At nine o’clock in the morning the coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel ashore at Scotstown Head.
The sea was smooth, but there was a dense fog. The motor life-boat Julia...