LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (4)
MONTROSE and JOHNSHAVEN.—On the 29th February a heavy sea was breaking on the bar at Montrose and a strong wind from the E.N.B. suddenly sprung up.
As three of the fishing boats were at sea the Life-boat Augusta was...
Friends of Killyleigh
During the afternoon of the 26th February, the Life-boat Tyretta, in answer to signals of distress, was launched to the assistance of the schooner Friends, of Killyleigh, which vessel having had all her sails blown away while on a voyage...
Two Pleasure Boats
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—Considerable anxiety was felt here on the 16th August, as to the safety of two pleasure boats with five visitors on board which had set out for Peel. At 9.45 P.M. the wind blew a gale from the S.S.W., the sea was rough,...
None (7)
It was reported on the evening of the 13th September that a party of nine people were stranded on Lady Isle, about three miles from Troon, in the Firth of Clyde. They had left Prestwick at 3 P.M. in a motor boat and had landed on the island...
None (1)
On the night of the 28th April the coastguard tele- phoned that two men had been ma- rooned at the foot of the cliffs at Capel Llockwyd, near South Stack. One of them had been rescued by lines from the top of the cliffs, but the other...
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...
Tilda
Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.32 on the early morning of the 27th of November, 1950, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a vessel was aground half a mile west of Jury's Gap. At 12.42 the life- boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a...
The Life-Boat Service on Exhibition
DURING the past few months, the Life- boat Service has been represented at three different exhibitions. From December 26th-31st, 1950, there was a scientific exhibition at the Imperial College, South Kensington, organised by Crosby Hall (the...
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Loch Fada and the L.C.T. Stalker
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — On the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1951, the Southend coastguard reported a message received from the naval authorities that the frigate Loch Fada, towing the L.C.T. Stalker, south-east of Sanda, found...
Chieftain
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—During the afternoon of the 12th February, 1938, the barge Chieftain, of London, bound with a cargo of wheat for Ipswich, was overtaken by bad weather when off Walton-on-the-Naze. She had two men and a woman on...