LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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...
Safe Return
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK. At 8.30 P . M . the owner of the Skibbereen motor fishing boat Safe Return reported that his boat, with a crew of three, was five hours overdue, and the motor lifeboat Shamrock was launched at 9.5 P.M....
Kathleen Claire
At 7.15 P.M. on the 9th June a mes- sage was received by telephone from the Civic Guards at Curracloe that a fishing boat was in distress in the North Bay.
The Motor Life-boat K.E.C.F. put out in a moderate S.S.W. breeze...
Liniers
During a whole southerly gale on the 12th February information was received that a steam tug was ashore on the Newcombe Bank, and was making signals of distress.
The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Thomas Simcox was assembled...
The S.S. Kyle Castle
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 3.45 on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, a telephone message was received from the Forniby coastguard that the S.S. Kyle Castle, of Liverpool, with a crew of twelve, had a heavy list about twenty miles...
Naming Ceremonies In Scotland
Two life-boats were named in Scotland in July, 1950, at St. Abbs and Buckie.
They are both gifts from Glasgow.
St. Abbs The new St. Abbs boat has been built out of a legacy from the late...
Category: Inaugurations
Audrey
On the 31st July the barge Audrey, of London, with a crew of two, had her sails carried away in the Whitaker channel, while bound from London to Rochford with a cargo of wheat. A moderate to strong S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
Guus
HELP FOR DUTCH Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 9.25 p.m. on zoth June, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that the Dutch trawler Guus was making for Hartlepool with a sick man aboard and that a helicopter had been alerted. At 10.25 the...
A Rubber Boat
MAY 26TH. - HYTHE, KENT. A small rubber boat with three men on board had been reported adrift off Dymchurch, but all that could be found was a large case. - Rewards, £10 10s. 6d..
A Fishing Boat (1)
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—At 11 A.M. on the 14th October a messenger arrived on horseback at Moelfre from Eed Wharf, a distance of about four miles, stating that a fishing-boat, with three men on board, was caught in a violent storm, and that the...