LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Five Fishing Vessels and Success
At 10.26 a.m. on 26th February, 1965, the coxswain was informed that conditions on the harbour bar were becoming very dangerous and that six local fishing boats were still at sea. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 10.30 in a...
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FORT IN DANGER OF COLLAPSING Margate, Kent.—At 2.33 in the after- noon of the 5th of December, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that the Com- mander-in-Chief at the Nore had asked that the life-boat should take off the crew of four of the...
Silver Cloud
Arbroath, Angus.—At 5.30 in the morning of the 26th of September, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that afishing boat was ashore off Whiting Ness; and at 5.45, the life-boat John and William Mudie was launched, in a light westerly breeze with...
Isle of Gigha
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 10.19 a-ni.
on nth November, 1966, news was given that the barge Isle of Gigha had capsized three miles south of Chuirn Island. Two men were missing. There was a strong southerly wind with a rough...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.44 on the morning of the 9th of Sep- tember, 1956, a message was received from the coastguard that the Brighton police had reported that a girl from a capsized sailing dinghy had been found coming ashore at...
A Motor Life-Boat's Trip of 669 Miles
THE new Motor Life-boat for Longhope, in the Orkneys, which is one of the 45 feet 6 inches Watson (cabin) type, with two 40 h.p. engines, left Cowes for her station at nine at night on the 4th January. She reached Ramsgate just before one in...
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Delightful (1)
COXSWAIN'S SONS RESCUED Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys, and Wick, and Thurso, Caithness- shire. At 5.30 p.m. on I7th December, 1963, the coastguard told the Longhope honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Pentland...
William Frothingham, of New York
Signals of distress were exhibited by a large full-rigged ship about two miles and a half to the north- ward of this place, on the 22nd of Octo- ber, whereupon the Benjamin Bond Gabbell life-boat was launched, and proceeded to the vessel,...
Telephone
CLOVELLY.—The smack Telephone, of and for Padstow from Newport, coal laden, parted one of her cables in Lundy Eoads, in a" moderate gale from N.N.W.
and a rough sea, on the 3rd March, and was obliged to slip the other...
Mary
Clovelly, Devon.—On the morning of the 2nd August the Hartland Point coastguard reported that a yacht appeared to be in distress about four miles east of the point. Her sails had been blown away, and she looked unmanageable. A moderate W.N.W...