LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Garthclyde
On the 1st February the motor vessel Garthclyde, of London, bound in ballast from London to Blyth, got into difficulties off Filey and dropped both her anchors.
A N.E. gale was blowing with a very rough sea. The...
John Bakke
FEBRUARY 1ST. - TROON, AYRSHIRE.
The Norwegian steamer John Bakke, of Haugesund, had run aground, but when the life-boat reached her, her fore part was high and dry and help was not needed. - Rewards, £6 17s....
An Aeroplane (58)
JULY 1ST. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reporteddown in the sea, but the Buckie life-boat reached the position to find that an R.A.F. rescue launch had picked up the body of an...
Fishing Cobles
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — At about 10 o'clock on the morning of the 2nd of February, the sea became very heavy, and several fishing cobles, which had gone out at 5 o'clock, ran much danger -while returning ashore. The Life-boat...
Arethusa
On the 5th November the services of the same life-boat were again called into requi- sition to go off to the rescue of 6 labourers on board the barque Arethusa, which was wrecked about two miles west of Lossie- mouth on the 1st inst. The men...
Jean Horsley
Hartlepool, Durham.—At 2.47 early on the morning of the 9th of February, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a boat off the Palliser Works, north of Hartlepool, was burning flares, and at 3.15 the life-boat The Princess Royal, Civil Service...
Barendsz
APRIL 26TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
The motor vessel Barendsz, of Rotterdam, was flying a four-flag signal, but it was found to be her name in code and she had only come in close for shelter in an easterly gale. Two...
The Golden Gleam, Moonbeam and the Sea Flower
Boulmer, Northumberland - At 6.55 p.m. on I7th July, 1967, a message was received that the weather was deteriorating and three fishing cobles were still at sea. The life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle was launched at 7.25 in a strong...
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Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—17th August. Four men had been cut off by the tide while fish- ing. Two got ashore but the others were drowned before the Lifeboats arrived.
—Rewards, Ferryside,...
A Man Hauled Ashore In a "Sling" Travelling on a Hawser
A Man Hauled Ashore In A "Sling" Travelling On A Hawser.
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