LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Susan Vittery
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 6th of April, 1953, the radio operator of the Tuskar Rock lighthouse on shore received a wireless message from the lighthouse that a ship's boat had been seen near the rock....
Tyrronall
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 7.40 on the evening of the 3rd of November, 1955, the skipper of a fishing boat in Arklow dock reported that he had heard on his boat's wireless the motor vessel Tyrronall reporting that her steering gear had...
The Motor Fishing Coble Doris
DECEMBER 9TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. About 5.45 P.M . it was learned that the motor fishing coble Doris had not returned. On board was the lifeboat coxswain, George Leng, with a crew of three. It was very dark, with a rough sea and a...
Fishing Boats (1)
North Sunderland and Holy Island, Northumberland.—Four Beadnell fish- ing boats were overtaken by bad weather on the morning of the 30th October and made for home. The pulling and sailing life-boat Lizzie Porter was hauled on her carriage to...
Margaret and James
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 10th of January, 1957, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Margaret and James was at sea in very bad weather. At 12.5 the life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted was...
The Margate Ladies
In disclosing that the R.N.L.I.'s temporary secondhand shop in High Street, Margate, had netted £800 in three weeks, Mrs. H. D. Ford, honorary secretary of the Margate ladies' life-boat guild, said : 'We must have over 1...
Category: Donations
County of Anglesea
The ketch County of Anglesea, of Carnarvon, whilst bound from that port to Rhosneigir with a cargo of bricks, was seen at 8.50 P.M., on the 15th March, drifting down towards the cliffs of Trecastell.
The weather was not...
The Longshore Fishing Boat Unity, of Lowestoft and Another Boat
APRIL 29TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 4.20 in the afternoon it was reported by fishing boats returning from the fishing grounds that the engines of two other boats had broken down off Southwold. A northnorth- west gale was...
Sea Hunter
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 12.58 early on the morning of the 8th of November, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the trawler Sea Hunter, which had a crew of twelve, had wire- lessed that she was leaking off the Shiant Islands, and...
Silver Pearl, of Ayr
JUNE 2 7TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
At 11.30 at night the coastguard reported a vessel, apparently at anchor, to the south of Portpatrick. The naval authorities asked the life-boat to go out and investigate. A strong...