LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Elizabeth
Sunderland, Co. Durham - At 10.13 a.m. on 2oth May, 1967, the fishing coble Elizabeth was reported to be in difficultiesone and a half miles east of Whitburn and was flying distress signals. The Life-boat William Myers and Sarah Jane Myers...
Tropacara
At 4.23 a.m. on 2oth June, 1967, it was reported that flares had been sighted north west of Cape Cornwall. The lifeboat Susan Ashley was launched at 4.45 in a moderate westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was shortly after high water. The life...
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Stuck in mud A MAN stuck in the mud at the mouth of the River Taff was reported to Swansea Coastguard by Cardiff Police at 2322 on Sunday August 24, 1980. Three men had been in a boat that sank. Two had managed to reach shore, but the third...
The Merchant Vessel Craigantlet
Stranded BELFAST COASTGUARD reported to the honorary secretary of Portpatrick lifeboat station at 0355 on Friday February 26, 1982, that Craigantlet, a merchant vessel on passage from Belfast to Liverpool, laden, had gone ashore off...
Florya
GROUNDED YACHT THE Eastney, Hampshire, ILB on 18th June, 1972, went to the aid of the yacht Florya and rescued three people.
At 1 p.m. on that day Hayling Island Coastguard reported that a large yacht was standing into...
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Will Everard
Cromer, Norfolk.—The No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 11.25 A.M. on the 20th April, as the Haisborough coastguard had telephoned that a sailing barge was aground about one and a half miles south of Haisborough coastguard...
Smew I
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—About 9.30 on the morning of the 30th of May, 1951, the Coast Life Saving Ser- vice telephoned that a yacht had run on the rocks one and a half miles west of Mine Head. At 9.45 the life-boat H. F. Bailey was...
Morning Star
MORE LOBSTER FISHERS IN DISTRESS Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At about 1.15 in the afternoon of the 21st of August, 1947, the civic guard reported that the salmon yawl Morning Star, of Helvick, which had been lobster fishing, was in...
A German Trawler
The following account of a service by the Helvick Head, Co. Waterford, life- boat on the 17th of December, 1959, was received too late for inclusion in the March, 1960, number of the Life- boat.
At 5.30 in the evening the...