LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Egmont
At midnight on the llth February it was reported that a schooner, which proved to be the Egmont, of and for Cork from Cardiff with a cargo of coal, was riding with only one anchor close to " Holden's Bed." Her crew were said to...
Fishing Cobles (1)
On the morning of the 9th February the Cox- swain of the Life-boat Queensbury went off in his coble, intending to go to his crab-pots. When well outside the break- water he found the sea very heavy and increasing. Knowing that several...
Two Boys
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 10.2 on the night of the 30th of August, 1960, the Irish naval authorities at Cobh informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Keizersveer of Amsterdam had an Irish fishing boat intow about a...
Midsummer
The smack Midsummer of Douglas was lying in the bay on the evening of the 2nd September, when the wind changed to N.N.W., increased to a moderate gale, and a heavy sea rose. The smack com- menced to drag her anchor, and the Master, who was...
Otto
POOLE, DORSETSHIRE.—On the 1st Junethe brigantine Otto, of Hoganas, Sweden, from Gene to Poole with a cargo of timber, was taken in tow by a steam-tug about 9 A.M., and while crossing Poole Bar the wind blowing from the E., accompanied by a...
A Ship’s Boat (3)
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. During the night of 18th September the sound of bombs and heavy gunfire had been heard out at sea, and on the morning of the 20th a message came from the coast watchers at Hook Pointthat...
Hilda II, Rachel, Betty Sheader, Rosemary and Easter Morn
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 25th of October, 1954, the weather worsened while four local fishing cobles were at sea, and at 11.15 the life-boat E.C.J.R. was launched in a flooding tide. The sea was heavy, and a fresh...
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Rosemary IV
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 8.10 in the evening of the 30th of May, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that two yachts, taking part in the Cowes to Cherbourg race, had gone aground on Shingles Bank near Elbow Buoy, but they had...
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Flamborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of January. 1954, a fishing coble was still at sea in worsening weather, and at two o'clock the life-boat Friendly Forester was launched in a rough sea. with a strong northerly gale...