LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Firth Fisher
SEAMAN LANDED Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 11.55 a.m. on 23rd May, 1964, the coastguard told the chairman of the branch committee that the motor vessel Firth Fisher was heading for Portpatrick with an injured seaman aboard. A doctor, who...
Evening Star
Arbroath, Angus - At 1.33 p.m. oa 9th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing boat Evening Star was lying off the harbour. At 1.45 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn, on temporary duty at the...
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...
Sparkling Wave, of Sunderland
On the 8th March, the barque Sparkling Wave, of Sunderland, was stranded, and afterwards became a total wreck, on the South Scroby Sand. It was blowing a heavy gale of wind at the time.
The Birmingham No. 2 life-boat went...
Vivid, of Wessex
On the 13th September, the Cahore life- boat again put off, in reply to signals of distress from the schooner Vivid, of Wex- ford, which was stranded about a quarter of a mile from the shore close to Poulduff Pier.
The life...
Lilian
Hoylake, Cheshire. — Early in the morning of the 18th of March, 1952, the motor fishing boat Lilian, with the life-boat coxswain and another man on board, put to sea. She did not return and at five o'clock the Formby coastguard...
Ocean Star (1)
Valentia, and Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 4.30 in the morning, on the 1st of August, 1950, the Valentia life-boat authorities received a telephone message from the Dingle Civic Guard. The local motor fishing vessel Ocean Star, with a crew of two,...
Fishing Cobles
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—Towards dusk on the 17th February, considerable anxiety was felt regarding three of the fishingcobles which had not returned to port and, as a strong wind was blowing and the sea was becoming heavy, the Life-boat...
Fishing Boats (1)
Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the 17th October, 1961, several local fishing boats were at sea, and as the weather was rapidly deteriorating it was decided to launch the life-boat to escort them to harbour. The life-boat J. G. Graves of...
Life-Boat at Sea Talks to London
ON 22nd July last there took place the first telephone conversation between a life-boat at sea and the head office of the Institution in London. On that day the representatives of the Marconi International Marine Communication Co. visited...
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