LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lina
On the 24th March, intelligence having been received that a barque was ashore on the Kentish Knock Sand, and that a shipwrecked crew were on board the Knock Lightship, which is about twenty-six miles from Ramsgate, the Life-boat Bradford and...
Taormina, of Oslo
ON llth February, with a gale blowing from W.N.W. and a very heavy sea running, the Norwegian steamer Taormina, of Oslo, with a crew of eighteen, attempted to enter Padstow Harbour when the tide was low. She struck on the Doom Bar, and lay...
Pacific and the S.S. Dunnett Head
Southend'on-Sea, Essex. — On 15th February, 1938, the signal station at the pierhead reported that a barge was in distress off Grain Spit and the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched at 12.5 P.M. A whole...
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HELICOPTER LOWERS DOCTORS TO LIFE-BOAT The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 8.3 on the evening of the 16th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two girls were in difficulties in Three Cliffs Bay.
There...
Einnan
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 7.35 on the evening of the 24th of Septem- ber, 1958, the coastguard reported that a message had been received from the wife of a salmon fisherman at Machrihanish that a yacht was dragging her anchor in...
The St. Augustine, of Helvick
MARCH 31ST. - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
WATERFORD. A fishing boat, which had been under repair at Dungarvan, left about 7.30 in the evening, with two men on board, to return to Helvick. As she was passing out of Dungarvan harbour...
Juliet, of Greenock
On the 29th December, intelligence was received here that a vessel was anchored at the entrance of the harbour, near Hell Bay, with an en- sign flying half-mast high. The wind was W.S.W., blowing a very strong gale. The Padstow life-boat was...
Jenny
FMBTWOOD, LANCASHIRE. — At 5.45 A.M.
on the 10th August, it was reported that a vessel had dragged her anchor and was in distress about 2 miles N.E. of the Wyre Light. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.W., and a...
The S.S. Antigone
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.47 on the even- ing of the 31st of January, 1954, the coastguard reported that a message had been received by the North Fore- land radio station that the S.S.
Antigone, of Antwerp, needed help ten miles...
Osprey
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 4 p.m.
on ist October, 1965, the m.f.v. Osprey was reported to have stopped near Withernsea with engine failure. There was a moderate south-south-easterly breeze with a rough sea. The tide was...