LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Svanen
The Wexford harbour master informed the life-boat authorities on the evening of the 15th November that the four- masted motor vessel Svanen, of Copen- hagen, was aground on Wexford Bar.
She had a crew of eight on board, and...
The Wireless Transmitting Station Radio London
DOCTOR TO RADIO LONDON At 6.32 p.m. on 24th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the wireless transmitting station Radio London about three miles east-south-east of Walton pier had a sick man on board and that...
The Fishing Smacks Border Queen and Jane
GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.—During a gale of wind from the N.W. and a rough sea, on the 24th December, the fishing-smacks Border Queen and Jane, of Annan, arrived off the harbour, and as it was evident that they would incur considerable risk in...
A Small Fishing Boat
Early on the morning of the 1st July the coast- guard telephoned that a small fishing boat, which had put out on the previous evening, had not returned to harbour.
She carried a crew of four. The sea was smooth, but there...
Marylis
Kllmore, Co. Wexford.—On the morn- ing of the 10th of February, 1956, a man reported that the trawler Marylis, of Lorient, had run on the rocks in Ballyhealy Bay and that her crew of nine needed help. At 10.35 the life- boat Ann Isabella...
Clyde and Harbinger
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—On the morning of the 13th Dec., 1887, a gale, which had been blowing strongly from the S.E., suddenly shifted to the S.W., and two schooners, the Clyde and the Harbinger, of Belfast, coal laden, which were riding at...
The S.S. Eleth
TEN LANDED Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 9.10 on the night of the 7th of January, 1948, the coastguard reported that a small vessel off Salt Island had signalled SOS with a torch, and the motor life- boat A.E.D. was launched at 9.37. A...
The S.S. Virginia
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 12.10 early on the morning of the 24th of De- cember, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Virginia, of Panama, had run ashore one mile west of Atherfield but had not made any distress signals....
Special Gifts
From Brazil.
A GIFT of £5 has been received from the staff of the Western Telegraph Company at Maranhao, in Northern Brazil.
Australian's Gift from a Sweepstake.
A gift of...
Category: Donations
(Left) Watson:
(left) Watson: length overall 46ft 9in; beam 12ft 9in; draught 4ft 4in; displacement 23 tons; maximum speed, over 8 knots; range at full speed, 200 nautical miles. The 46ft 9in Watson, introduced in 1947, launches down a slipway or lies... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs