LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Ship’s Life-Boat
APRIL 1ST. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 1.30 P.M. a message was received from the Wyre Lighthouse that a ship’s lifeboat needed help. A moderate W.S.W. wind was blowing with a slight sea. At 1.40 P.M.
the...
A Fishing Boat
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—On the morning of the 18th of October, 1955, five men put off in a fishing boat to go to Barrahead to ferry sheep to Mingulay, but the weather worsened during the day and their families became anxious. At 4.30...
A Fishing Boat
DISTRESS SIGNALS Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 8.15 p.m. on 5th December, 1964, a local barkeeper telephoned the honorary secretary to report that distress signals had been seen off Duncannon and that a fishing boat was overdue. The sea...
A Fishing Punt
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 11.35 on the morning of the llth of December, 1950, a local fishing punt was seen flying an oilskin coat from an oar two miles north-east of Ballycotton Har- bour. Ten minutes later the life-boat Mary...
A Rowing Boat
Newhaven, Sussex. — At half past eleven on the morning of the 6th of November, 1949, the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched for exer- cise. There was a choppy sea, with an easterly breeze blowing. As she was returning, she...
A Double Gift
MEN of the 2nd Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, from Shorncliffe Camp, took part, as launchers, in a life-boat service at Hythe on the afternoon of 28th July, when the motor life-boat went out to the help of the yacht Leonora Minnie,...
Category: Donations
A Yacht (6)
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 6.23 on the evening of the 7th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small yacht was in diffi- culties off Ramrose Head. The life- boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) put out at...
A Lobster Fishing Boat
Lobster boat sunk THE LIGHTKEEPERS on Tory Island sent a message to the honorary secretary of Arranmore lifeboat station at 2015 on Saturday, September 17, reporting that a half-decker lobster fishing boat had gone on the rocks. The crew of...
A Small Vessel
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 2.55 in the afternoon of the 26th of May, 1948, the Strumble Head coastguard telephoned that a small vessel appeared to be in distress six miles to the west- ward. Five minutes later he saw her flying...
A Jet Aircraft
Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.20 on the after- noon of the 20th of May, 1955, the Selsey coastguard telephoned that the R.A.F. No. 19 Group had reported that a jet aircraft of the R.A.F., with a crew of two, had crashed fifteen miles south of Selsey...