LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Barbara
At 4.45 P.M. on the 22nd February, the barometer having suddenly dropped to 28 • 2, with a full gale of wind from west, the schooner Barbara, which was lying in Scrabster Roads, made signals of dis- tress. The crew of the Life-boat Co-...
Alexandra
.—At 7.15 A.M. on the 13th November the Coxswain of the Life - boat, James Stevens No. 1, sighted a dismasted vessel about three miles to the south of Port St. Mary. He immediately assembled his crew, and very promptly launched the boat. A...
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SICK CHILD TAKEN FROM ISLAND IN GALE Gahvay Bay. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 8th March, 1963, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could take a child suffering from appendicitis to Rossaveel for...
Mavoureen and Random Harvest
Troon, Ayrshire. —At 11.50 on the night of the 6th of January, 1949, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the Ayr coastguard had reported two fishing boats aground to the south of Ayr, and the life-boat Sir David Rich- mond of Glasgow...
Ripple
RHYL, NORTH WALES.—Signals of distress having been observed on the 12th April, the Life-boat Caroline Richardson was launched at about 3.30 AM., and found the yacht Ripple of and for Liverpool, from Conway, with three men on board, at anchor...
Kate
NORTH DEAL.—Signal rockets and guns having been fired by the Gull Light-vessel on the 4th January, the Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 6.15 P.M., and proceeded towards the Goodwin Sands. The wind was blowing moderately from...
Elise
The No. 2 Life- boat Civil Service No. 1, was launched at 8.30 P.M. on 3rd December during a whole southerly gale to the assistance of the fishing smack Elsie, of Ramsgate, which had stranded on the Long Nose Rock. When the Life-boat got...
Ross Tern
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY TILL SISTER SHIP ARRIVES Longhope, Orkney. At 8.20 on the morning of the 27th April, 1963, a local resident informed the honorary secretary that a trawler appeared to be drifting in the Pentland Firth a mile and a half...
Nancy
At 7.40 P.M.
on the llth November, a message was received from the Yarmouth Coast Guard stating that a vessel was burning flares off Yarmouth Pier, and that the Yarmouth Life-boat was unable to launch. The Coxswain of the...
Star
" At 2 A.M. on the 23rd October, the Lifeboat proceeded to the assistance of a schooner; bnt her services were not called into requisition. The boat regained her station at six o'clock, and had only been moored forty minutes when...