LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Disaster at Broughty Ferry
IN the early hours of the 8th of December, 1959, the Broughty Ferry life-boat Mona was launched on receipt of a message that the North Carr lightvessel had broken adrift. Some time between 5.15 and 6.00 in the morning the life- boat capsized...
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Milky Way
On the 9th November, the No. 2 Lifeboat Godsend went out in reply to signals of distress, and assisted to save the schooner Milky Way, of Fraserburgh,which was in a dangerous position close to the Barber Sands, during a very strong northerly...
Margaret
THORPE.—On the 10th November, the schooner Margaret, of Goole, riding off Thorpeness during a S.S.W. gale, was observed to drag her anchor. She slipped her cable, but her rudder chains broke, she became unmanageable, and drove on to the...
Crusader
WHITBURN.—On the 22nd November the Thomas Wilson Life-boat brought ashore eight men from the steam-tug Crusader, of Sunderland, which had stranded on Whitburn Rocks during foggy weather. The eight men had gone on board to try to get her...
Irvine
IRVINE, N.B.—On the 20th December, at about 2 P.M., the tug Irvine, of Irvine, was proceeding to Ayr to tow a vessel to Irvine Harbour, during a strong S.W. gale and a heavy sea. She grounded on the centre of the bar, and showed signals of...
Review
" SHIPBUILDING—From Smack to Frigate, from Cutter to Destroyer." Published on behalf of J. Samuel White & Co., Ltd., Cowes, by the Albion Publishing Co., London.
This book describes the activities of the firm...
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Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Life-Boat Saturday Fund workers have been much handicapped in their collecting by the serious and apparently increasing depression in trade which has of late so extensively prevailed and which is still with us. To make matters worse...
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Mary Watkinson
On the 12th February, signals of distress were shown by the three-masted schooner Mary Watkinson, of Barrow, and the Life-boat Thomas Fielden therefore went to her assistance. She was drifting towards the shore at Penrhos Point, dragging her...
Cobles Sceptre, Our Boys, Golden Rule, Breadwinner and Helen Cargill
Arbroath, Angus.—At midday on the 17th December a S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain. The local fishing boats Sceptre, Our Boys, Golden Rule, Breadwinner and Helen Cargill were expected in, and as the harbour bar was very...
True Vine
COBLE BROKEN DOWN Amble, Northumberland.—At 1.50 in the afternoon of the 15th of Decem- ber, 1947, the coastguard reported a fishing coble burning flares three miles south-east of Hauxley Point. The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was...