LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Biscaya
Biscaya sinks AT 0144 on December 13, 1974, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston honorary secretary was informed by Gorleston Coastguard that the 493 ton motor vessel Biscaya had been in collision with a French tug and tow in position 52°24'...
Jouet des Vagues
St. Helier, Jersey - At 5.36 p.m. on ipth October, 1966, Jersey radio reported that the French trawler Jouet des Vagues, of St. Malo, required assistance as she was in difficulties in heavy seas, about nine miles west of La Corbiere...
A Boat (1)
Walmer, Kent.—At 12.50 on the after- noon of the 12th of May, 1957, the Deal coastguard reported that a small boat needed help one mile south-east of the coastguard station. At one o'clock the life-boat, Thomas Markby, on temporary duty...
Mazurka
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 10.10 on the night of the 3rd of March, 1949, rockets were seen in the direction of Swona, and the life-boat crew assembled while the coastguard made enquiries.
At 10.30 they reported flares to the...
None (2)
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 5.25 in the evening of the 22nd of May, 1952, the Civic Guard reported that a boy had fallen down a cliff about one and a half miles from the harbour to the east of Howth Head. The life-boat R.P.L.
was...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Twenty-third Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 23rd May, at Willis's Booms, his GRACE THE DUKE OF MARYBOROUGH, President of the Society, in the Chair.
The Chairman observed that it had been well...
Category: Meetings
Maria W. (1)
TWO LIFE-BOATS OUT TO DUTCH VESSEL ON FIRE Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk. At 4.36 on the morning of the 17th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston that a ship was...
Vulfrano
CABIN CRUISER AGROUND Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.40 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, a cabin cruiser was seen by the coastguard to be in difficulties off Warden Point. There was a full gale from the south-west with a rough sea. The life-boat...
Sunshine
PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the 11th April, signals of distress were observed in the direction, of Seotstonhead, -whereupon the People's Journal No. 1 Life-boat proceeded out, and found the schooner Sunshine, of Wick, stranded on the...
Christiania
PALLING, NORFOLK.—On the 11th April, at 4.15 A.M., during a strong gale of wind from the east, with a heavy sea, a vessel was observed stranded on the beach at Waxham. With all despatch the No. 1 Life-boat was launched and taken to the spot;...