LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
American Shipper
SICK MEN LANDED Penlee, Cornwall. At midday on ist January, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed that a sick man needed to be landed from the motor vessel American Shipper, at approx. 3 p.m. The lifeboat Solomon Browne launched at 2.50...
A Speed Boat
SPEED BOAT OUT OF FUEL Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.5 p.m.
on ist August, 1965, a speed boat was reported drifting out to sea off Lee-over- Sands. The people in it were waving their arms. There was a light southerly breeze...
The German Fishing Boat Angela
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.8 on the morning of the 10th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German fishing boat Angela had an injured man on board, who needed a doctor. The boat was due...
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Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 9.25 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1953, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard rang up to say that the Harwich police had reported that a man and a woman were stranded on a sandbank in Dovercourt Bay...
St Monan
The Life-boat Catherine Swift was launched on the 3rd June to the assistance of the barque St. Monan, of Stavanger. During a thick fog the barque ran on to the Typet Ledge and on her signals being heard steps were taken to send...
St. Kieran
Galway Bay.—At 10.30 on the morn- ing of the 1st of June, 1954, the life- boat coxswain noticed that the trawler St. Kieran, of Galway, had gone aground at Straw Island about one mile east of Kilronan. At eleveno'clock the life-boat...
Rapid
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At midnight on the 5th of August, 1952, the wife of a man, who had gone fishing in his motor boat Rapid with two others at 7.0 that morning, telephoned that they should have returned at 7.0 in the evening. There was a...
The Steamers Fulham IV and Izgled
JANUARY 7TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 12.45 P.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a Steamer was ashore at Kingsdown. There was dense fog, a light S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 12.55 P.M. the motor lifeboat...
The Motor Fishing Smack Energy
JULY 15TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 2.15 A.M. the KinnairdHead coastguard reported a vessel ashore, firing signals of distress, a quarter of a mile west of Cairnbulg lookout. A light N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a...
Henning
On the 6th April, at 4.30 A.M., during a moderate N.E. wind, signal guns were fired from the Gull Lightship. The Lifeboat Bradford proceeded under sail to the North Sand Head and found a barque ashore on the North-east part of the...