LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Philorth
The steam trawler Philorth, of Dundee, left Dundee Harbour at 1.30 A.M. on the 18th March, bound for the fishing grounds, and at 3.45 she was seen from Arbroath Harbour to run on to the rocks about one mile to the eastward, and make signals...
Fishing Boats (2)
GOUHDON AND JOHNSHAVBN, KlN- CARDINESHIRE. — A large number of fishing-boats belonging to Gourdon went off to fish on the morning of the 15th April, but had to return on account of the E.S.E. gale which came on...
The Hawkinge
The Life-boat Richard Cresswell was called out between 6 and 7 P.M. on the 22nd July to the assistance of a small boat named the Hawk, at the mouth of the River Liffey.
The Life-boat was launched and the rescue carried out...
Inchcolm
The Life-boat William Arthur Millward was called out shortly after nine in the morning on the 21st August to a vessel which had stranded on the Peffer Sands, some miles westward of Dunbar. The Life-boat was promptly launched, not without...
Fishing Cobles
Con- siderable excitement was caused on the morning of the 16th March in the village of Newbiggin owing to fifteen of the cobles belonging to the port having been overtaken by bad weather when at sea. The boats went off fishing at about 5...
The S.S. Argentum
During foggy •weather on the 1st October the s.s.
Argentum, of Newcastle, stranded on the Blakeney West Sands whilst bound from Goole to Faversham with a cargo of coal. Coxswain Long observed the accident and promptly took...
The S.S. Lock
The s.s. Loch Lomond, of Dundee, whilst bound from the Tyne to Marseilles with a cargo of 3,600 tons of coal, stranded on the North Holm Sand on the 8th November.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing at the time, with a...
A School Lecture on the Life-Boats
THOSE who lecture on the Life-boat Service will, we think, be interested in the following account from a school- master at Willesden of a lecture which he gave after distributing the illustrated leaflet which has the chart of Life-boat...
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Wyvern
FISHING VESSEL ON FIRE Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 3.0 in the afternoon of the 6th of July, 1947, a message was received from the Wyre Lighthouse that a motor fishing vessel, the Wyvern, of Ramsgate, bound for Fleetwood, was making distress...
Sodality
TWICE AGROUND Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 3.20 in the morning of the 10th of November, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that the motor vessel Sodality, of London, had been in collision with No.
39 Buoy near the Sunk...