LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tuatanga
Ramsgate, Kent - At 7.53 p.m. on 15th July, 1967, a message was received that a motor yacht had broken down and was drifting towards Broadstairs. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 8 o'clock in a gentle south...
Vine
MONTROSE.—The Montrose No. 1 Lifeboat, Mincing Lane, was launched at about 2 P.M. on the 19th August, during a moderate S.E. wind, to the assistance of the fishing-boat Vine, of Montrose, which was in danger near the Armat Bank, on which a...
Canterbury Bell
On the morning of the 22nd April the ketch Canterbury Bell, of Plymouth, bound from Dublin for Portmadoc with wheat, was seen stranded on the causeway about eight miles from the bar. The Barmouth Life-boat Jones Oibb proceeded to her...
Drill
LIFE-BOAT crews are generally such experienced boatmen that the necessity for drill is not apparent to them, and the quarterly exercise at some stations is apt to degenerate into a somewhat perfunctory proceeding which does not strike...
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Capella
SKIPPER'S BROKEN ARM Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 3.45 on the morning of the 14th of August, 1947, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been seen about two miles east- north-east of Queen's Pier, and the motor life-boat Lady...
Walker II
Margate, Kent.—At 12.50 in the after- noon, on the 3rd of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the local pilot boat Walker II had broken down and was drifting on to the Nayland Rocks. Two motor boats had gone to her help, but could not...
Emanuele Accame
DROGHEDA.—The barque Emanuele Accame, of Genoa, bound from Bremerhaven for Swansea, in ballast, was riding at anchor in a dangerous position, about two miles N. of the Boyne bar, having lost three her four masts, on the 13th...
Terra Nova, Girl Ann
Kirkcudbright - At 5 p.m. on 29th July, 1967, it was reported that a boat hadgone ashore and broken up on the north side of Ross Bay. It was thought that the casualty might be the local motor fishing vessel Girl Ann which was out fishing at...
A Sailing Dinghy
Dinghy capsized A SMALL SAILING DINGHY capsized by the Mulberry harbour, Littlestone, was reported to Dover Coastguard at 1103 on Saturday September 6, 1980. Her crew, two young boys, were signalling for help and it was later learned that...
Fishing Boats (1)
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. •— On the 15th January the fishing fleet from Arranmore, Burtonport, and the surrounding islands, put off to fish in Boylagh Bay. The boats did not return when expected, and, as a dense fog set in, the motor life-boat...