LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ain Mara
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 7 a.m.
on i8th August, 1965, a yacht was reported ashore at Sgeir Cailleach. At 7.15 the lifeboat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin was launched with the second coxswain in charge, in a south-westerly gale...
H.M. Cable Ship Iris
Ilfracombe, Devon - At 5.50 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, information was received that a message had come in from H.M.
cable ship Iris requesting medical advice for a sick man on board. Arrangements were made for a doctor to be...
Charis (1)
Baltimore and Courtmacsherry, Co.
Cork.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 8th of July, 1956, the Garda at Castle- townshend telephoned that the local yacht Charis had put out the day before and had not returned. At two...
Strathrye
Lerwick, Shetland*, and Stromness, Orkneys.—llth January. The steam trawler Strathrye, of Aberdeen, with a crew of nine, sent out a wireless message that she was leaking and in danger of sinking at about 10 P.M. on the llth January. The...
A Curragh
Galway Bay. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 23rd of October, 1957, the honorary secretary received a request for the life-boat to make forClare Island in Clew Bay to search for a curragh, which was missing with five people on...
Embla
MUHBSSI.BT, NOBTOLK. — At 5.80 A.M.
on the 28th November, the Life-boat J. B. Elliot was launched to the aid of the barque JEmWs, of Stavanger, bound from Christiansund for Cardiff with a cargo of timber, which had stranded...
My Lassie
Hastings, Sussex.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 2nd of July, 1949, the coastguard reported a boat, anchored off Pett, flying a flag at half mast, and the life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at one o'clock in an east-...
A Small Speed Boat
Swanage, Dorset.— At 9.5 P.M. on the 14th August, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a small speed-boat was showing distress signals off the Anvil Point Lighthouse.
The weather was fine and the sea was...
Forward
Holyhead. Anglesey,—At 12.35 in the afternoon, on the 4th of July, 1950, the coastguard reported that red rockets were being fired by a fishing vessel off Rhoscolyn. A light easterly breeze was blowing and the sea was...
Premier
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the afternoon of the 2nd of January, 1951, the local fishing coble Premier, which had put out that morning, had not returned. As the weather was getting worse, anxiety was felt for her...