LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Barge
MAY 25TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
A barge had been reported sunk after collision, but nothing was found, and it was later learned that the barge had been beached. - Rewards, £11 10s. 6d..
A Coaster and a Trawler
NOVEMBER 5TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
A. coaster and trawler had gone aground on Walney Island, but both vessels refloated with the rising tide and were able to go on their way. - Rewards, £4 19s. 6d..
A Steamer (10)
JUNE 29TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN.
A steamer had run ashore on the bar at Dundrum, but declined help and later refloated.
- Rewards, £13 7s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (89)
DECEMBER 18TH. - BEAUMARIS ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but it was found to have crashed on land. - Rewards : Beaumaris, £15 ; Llandudno, £35 0S....
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Lerwick, Shetland*.—While the life-boat was taking the food and mails to Gmtness on the 1st of March, 1947, a doctor, whom she had taken to Quarff on the 28th of February, but who had been unable to land, telephoned that the patient there...
Trusty, of Boston
Another rescue was effected at this life- boat station on the 19th October. The schooner Trusty, of Boston, was stranded off Runton about a mile and a-half eastward of Sheringham Beach. It was blowing a fearful gale from the N.N.E. at the...
Fennel
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—About 9.30 on the night of the 9th of October1948, a vessel was seen to enter Dungarvan Harbour, at full speed and run aground on Whitehouse Bank. She was not seen to signal, but telephone messages from...
Aphrodite
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 7.44 on the night of the 8th of August, 1951, the Shoreham coastguard tele- phoned that a small ship was on fire one mile south-east of Shoreham Harbour.
At 7.59 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and...
Katcher I
AGROUND AT BRIGHTON At 6.9 a.m. on 27th September, 1965, the police at Brighton reported that a fishing vessel was aground 200 yards east of the Palace pier and that she was listing badly. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was...
Herta
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.
At 7.38 a.m. on 24th November, 1965, the Dutch vessel Herta was reported aground three miles north-east of the Nelson buoy. The life-boat Sarah Townsend Porritt went to the scene at 8.20...