LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Beverwick
Tynemouth, Northumberland. On the 6th February, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that an attempt was to be made to refloat the Dutch dredger Beverwick which had stranded on the Tynemouth pier, and that the captain in charge of the...
A Yawl
LIFE-BOAT ESCORTS YAWL WITH SIX CHILDREN ABOARD Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 31st August, 1962, a message was received from Cahirciveen that six children were adrift in a yawl under oars and were being blown seawards...
Letters
Ecclesiastical point I have been interested in the correspondence about Shoreline. I would leave things as they are. Certainly I would not want to have Lifeboat Supporters Club as a name because although we do not go to sea those of us who...
Category: Correspondence
H.M. Torpedo Destroyer Recruit
SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.—During a dense fog on the 27th of May H.M.
Torpedo Destroyer Recruit struck the rocks, about half a mile N. of Cape Cornwall, at 4 o'clock in the morning. The Coxswain, hearing distress signals,...
Queen of Kent
Ramsgate, Kent.—During the night of the 1st August, 1938, the pleasure steamer Queen of Kent, of Rochester, returning to Ramsgate Harbour from a trip, with 347 persons on board, ran aground on the Brake Sands. A gentle N.E. breeze was...
Fishing Boats (1)
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 5.7 on the evening of the 9th of February, 1953, the Carnoustie coastguard telephoned that the Arbroath coastguard had asked if the life-boat would escort four Arbroath fishing boats into...
A Motor Launch
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.-—At 7.10 on the evening of the 13th of July, 1957, the honorary secretary received a message from the assistant harbour master that a boat needed help off the east pier. The life-boat Dunleanj II put out at 7.45...
Naoim Cait
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 5.40 on the morning of the 25th of June, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message from Valentia radio that the fishing vessel Naoim Cait required help north- west of Tearaght lighthouse. At six o'clock the...
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Aith, Shetlands - At 12.45 a.m. on 3rd July, 1966, the medical authorities requested the assistance of the life-boat to take a doctor and nurse to Foula Island where someone was seriously ill. The life-boat John and Frances Macfarlane was...
Ebenezer
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford - At 8 p.m. on i3th August, 1967, thesecond coxswain was informed that a flare had been seen inside Tusker rock.
The motor vessel Duke of Rothsay and St. David's coastguard also reported...