LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cuprous
LIFE-BOAT TAKES OVER TOW OF YACHT Holy Island, Northumberland. At six o'clock on the evening of the 25th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been intercepted from the motor vessel Ettrick that...
E. J. D., of Nantes
Four days afterwards the boat again did good service. The brig. E. J. D. of Nantes, was driven by the tempestuous weather on a lee shore, and was at length forced to run for Scarborough Harbour.
In making the attempt,...
Wyre Captain
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 1.25 on the morning of the 13th of October, 1950, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Wyre Captain, of Fleetwood, had reported that she was ashore in Islay Sound off Port Askaig and needed...
Prospero
RAMSGATE.—On the 26th January, at 7.45 A.M., during a moderate wind from the N., a barque was observed ashore on the North Sand Head, Goodwin Sands.
The harbour steam-tug Vulcan and Lifeboat Bradford were immediately...
A Dutch Coaster
DECKS WERE AWASH At 4.47 p.m. on 24th September, 1964, a report was received via Cromer radio that a small Dutch coaster which had been in a collision was in danger of sinking in choppy seas and fresh south-southeasterly winds. Because of...
A Motor Boat from H.M.S. Lucia
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the morning of the 12th November a motor boat from H.M.S. Lucia ran aground on the south end of the northern arm of the breakwater at Portland harbour. Shewas reported by the Royal Naval Police at Bincleaves, and the...
Harold Brown
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 21st of Decem- ber, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the tug Harold Brown, which had a dumb barge in tow, had run aground about four hundred yards east of Shoreham Harbour. At...
A Firefly Sailing Dinghy
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1954, the Penmon coastguard rang up to say that a Firefly sailing dinghy, with a crew of two, had capsized off Irish- man's Spit at the eastern end of the Menai Straits....
Fishing Boats (1)
As two fishing-boats belonging to the port I had not returned from fishing, and the wind was blowing hard with a very rough sea on the 24th December, the Life-boat Sarah Ann Holden was launched shortly after noon, in order to be in |...
Two Dinghies (1)
At 2.12 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, two small boats were reported in difficulties off Selsey Bill. The larger of the two boats was trying to help the smaller one, a 10- foot fibre glass dinghy, with a crew of two The life-boat Canadian Pacific...