LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fiancee
During a strong easterly gale on the llth Decem- ber the French schooner La Fiancee, of Paimpol, came into Campbeltown Harbour for shelter. She let go her anchors, but owing to the strength of the gale the anchors dragged, and the vessel...
Ard Adimh
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 8.50 p.m. on i6th February, 1966, the coastguard reported to the coxswain that the trawler Ard Adimh was adrift in Dun Laoghaire harbour and in danger of breaking up on the rocks by the west pier. As the...
Lady Molly
GUIDED TO BOAT BY PARAFFIN FLARES Hastings, Sussex. At 8.35 on the evening of the 6th October, 1962, two members of the local angling club reported that the motor boat Mahaba was overdue. There was a light northeast breeze with a smooth sea....
Zouave
During the night of the 7th February the schooner Zouave was lost on the Hasbro' Sand. She belonged to Ports- mouth, was bound from that place to Seaham, and carried a crew of 6 hands.
The night was hazy and the wind...
Wancoma
BALLYWALTER.—On the 20th October, the brigantine Wancoma, of Belfast, struck on Wallace's Bocks, about a mile south of the Bally waiter Life-boat station, at about 11.45 P.M., during a fresh gale. She was boarded by a Coastguard galley...
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Swanage, Dorset. At 6.10 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had reported a man in difficulties on the cliffs at Ballard Down. A cliff rescue team had been sent to the...
Florence Myal
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.15 A.M.
on the 4th May, 1938, the coastguard reported a light about six miles S.W.
by S. Watch was kept, and after some time it was decided to send out the motor life-boat...
Cairnsmore
Fishermen taken off THE COXSWAIN of Angle lifeboat was informed at 0007 on Friday December 1, 1978, that the 39ft fishing boat Cairnsmore, on passage to Scotland, was in trouble five miles south west of the Hats and Barrels. Maroons were...
Gathland
Teesmouth, Yorkshire - At 6 a.m.
on 3oth November, 1966, information was received that the motor vessel Gathland had an injured man aboard who required medical assistance, and that a doctor had agreed to go to him. The last...
Don
LOBSTER FISHERS ADRIFT ALL NIGHT St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.40 on the morning .of the 14th of August, 1947, information was received that two men, who had left Solva in their motor fishing boat Don to attend to their lobster pots,...