LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Man and cat saved in gale
Engine failure combined with force 7–8 winds to put a sailor and his cat Sukie in danger 4 miles off the Mull of Kintyre on 3 September. Campbeltown’s Severn class lifeboat, Ernest and Mary Shaw, launched to help. The 7m yacht was rolling...
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Northern District Inspector
Lieut.-Commander S. C. Dickinson, R.N.V.R., who was district inspector in Ireland before the war, was appointed to the Northern District last April on returning from the Navy. During the war he took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk, was...
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Warkworth Castle
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the afternoon of the 18th December, the brig Warkworth Castle, of Amble, bound to that port from Gloucester in ballast, droveashore in a snowstorm on Bondicar Bocks, near this Life-boat station. Her signals of...
John Green
DROGHEDA, IRELAND.—The schooner John Green, of this port, bound there with coal from Ardrossan, was entering the river Boyne on the llth February, while the wind was blowing hard from the E.N.E., and a very heavy sea...
Sea Gipsy
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 24th of June, 1957, a telephone message was received that the 21-feet speed boat Sea Gipsy had broken down six miles south-south- east of the Casquets. At 8.50 the life-boat Euphrosyne...
Floradora
Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 11.13 on the night of the 15th of November, 1957, the coastguard reported that a vessel was making distress signals about half a mile off Anstruther harbour.
The life-boat James and Ruby Jackson...
A Sailing Dinghy (4)
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 5.7 on the even- ing of the 9th of September, 1952, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy between two and three miles south of Polruan had had her sails blown away, and at 5.25 the life- boat C.D.E.C....
Escape
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.50 on the evening of the 29th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht at Pollard Spit was signalling and needed help. At 9.30 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched....
Robina
Information reached Broughty Ferry between 7 and 8 P.M. on the 3rd April that a steam trawler was ashore on the Goa Bank, and signalling for assistance.
The crew of the Life-boat Samuel Shaw- cross were summoned and the...
Annabell
The fishing coble Annabell, of Newbiggin, was observed in distress about a mile from the shore shortly before 11 A.M. on the 8th January, and it was seen that she was unable to get into the Haven.
The wind had increased to...