LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Honoria and a Coble
SALTBURN, YORKSHIRE.—The Coastguard having reported a vessel stranded near Marske on the morning of the 9th January, the Life-boat Mary Batger was launched at 4.40 in a heavy sea and pulled in the direction indicated. In approaching the...
Brilliant
POOLE.—The barque Brilliant, of Grimstadt, while on a voyage from Cuba to Bremen with a cargo of cedar logs, went aground on the Hook Sands, at the mouth of Poole harbour, in a heavy gale from S.E. by E. and a very high sea on the 12th...
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—At 9.30 on the night of the 2nd of February, 1956, a doctor at Bunbeg reported that the priest at Tory Island was ill and asked if the life-boat would take him to the mainland for hospital treatment. The island had...
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Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 19th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man was stranded on the bank of the river Tees near no. 5 light buoy. There were light south-westerly airs...
River Afton
INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL Penlee, Cornwall. At 10.30 on the night of the 4th March, 1962, the honorary secretary was informed that a doctor was needed to attend an injured member of the crew of the motor vessel River A/ton of...
Marujita Lopez
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 7.20 on the morning of the 14th of August, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that the trawler Marujita Lopez of San Sebastian had an injured man on board and that she was off Begnis Island. The life-boat...
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Port St. Mary, and Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 11.10 on the morning of the 23rd of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port St. Mary that fire had broken out on the lighthouse on Chickens Rock. It had been...
A Small Sailing Boat
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 20th of November, 1952, the parents of two men who had left on a fishing trip in a small sailing boat that morning reported that their sons had not re- turned. At...
A Punt
SECOND COXSWAIN DROWTSED WHILE OUT FISHING Howth, Co. Dublin. At 7.35 on the evening of the 22nd November, 1962, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the son of the second coxswain, William McLoughlin, had reported that his...
Lyra
Hartlepool, Durham.—At 9.52 on the night of the 10th of July, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the police had reported that a vessel had run ashore to the northward. At 10.6 the life-boat The Princess Royal, Civil Service No. 7 was...