LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat (1)
Blyth, Northumberland. At 8.42 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat was drifting on to Seaton rocks. The life- boat Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) was...
S.S. Jan Van Goyen
JANUARY 9TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 9.30 in the morning, the senior naval officer telephoned that the S.S. Jan Van Goyen, which had lost both anchors and carried away her windlass, had stood out to sea. She was one of...
Cairngorm
DEC. 14TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO.
WATERFORD. The motor ship Cairngorm, of Glasgow, shortly after taking a pilot aboard, went aground on the west side of Waterford Harbour, one and a half miles from Dunmore East. Distress...
Clio
At 9.15 P.M. on the 14th January the Cox- swain of the Life-boat Anna Maria Leesnw lights on Cairnbulge Briggs, about two miles from Fraserburgh. He immedi- ately ordered the launch of the Life-boat and proceeded to the vicinity, where he...
The House-Boat Petrina
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sus- sex. At 10.12 on the night of the 1st of January, 1959, the coastguard at Fairlight informed the Hastings honor- ary secretary that two flares had been seen south-east of the look-out. At 10.45 the...
A Boat
MABLETHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE.—WhDe a moderate wind was blowing from N., accompanied by a choppy sea, on the 6th March, a messenger arrived from Theddlethorpe and informed the coxswainof the Life-boat Heyicood that a small craft was drifting in...
The Cunard Steamer Brest
CADGWITH, CORNWALL.—On the 6th September the Joseph Armstrong Life-boat went out twice and rescued 40 persons from the Cunard steamer Brest, of Glasgow, which, while on a voyage from Havre to Liverpool with a large number of passengers and a...
Emma Louise
During a thick sea fog on the 14th May a message was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was ashore about half a mile to the west of Beachy Head. The wind was blowing strongly from W.S.W. and the sea was...
Young Sam
At about noon on the 7th December the coastguard re- ported that the Cockle Lightvessel was firing signals to indicate that a vessel was in distress. A light W.S.W. breeze was blowing, and the sea was fairly smooth, but there was a dense fog...
Vole
At 7. p.m. on loth June, 1966, a yacht was reported aground to the west of the pier. There was a light north easterly wind with a slight sea and thick fog. It was one hour after low water. The no. 2 life-boat William Henry and Mary King...