LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Moran
TAKEN TO STORNOWAY Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 11.15 P-m. on i2th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Moron of Glasgow, which wished to land a sick man at Stornoway, was now off Bayble, and asked if...
None (3)
DOCTOR'S CALL Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 12.20 a.m. on iyth December, 1963, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a young boy needed to be taken to hospital at South Uist. There were light north-easterly airs with a...
Mayflower
JUNE 15TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 9.39 P.M. on the 14th June a message was received from the coastguard that the motor yacht Mayflower of Great Yarmouth, was ashore at Jaywick. As the yacht was not then in a dangerous position the...
Cetus
Nov. 19TH. - ALDEBURGH: SUFFOLK.
At 4.45 A.M. a message was received from the Orfordness coastguard that a vessel was in distress about two miles from Orfordness Lighthouse. A strong N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ABERYSTWITH.—A new 34-feet, 10- oared Life-boat has been forwarded to this well-known Welsh watering-place, its cost having been defrayed from a hand- some legacy bequeathed to the Institution, through its Manchester Branch, by the late Mr....
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Cornhill
On the night of the 15th January, three vessels which were at anchor in Dungarvan Pool were driven on the rocky shore at Ballin- acourty, the wind blowing a whole gale from the S. at the time. Two of them got so close to the shore that they...
Die Manten (1)
The Die Manten afterwards drove ashore some miles to the southward of Montrose, and on the wreck being observed among the breakers on the 25th March the AdmiralFitzroy Life-boat stationed at Anstruther put off and found there was only one...
Erin
WEXFORD.—Signals of distress were shown by the steam-tug Erin, of Wexford, at 5.30 P.M., on the 8th March. The Ethel Eveleen Life-boat proceeded to her assistance and found that her engines had broken down, and that she was in a very...
Mary Cook
GIRVAN, N.B.—At noon on the 3rd March the smack Mary Cook, of Campbeltown, was seen to be drifting from her moorings at the north of the harbour, and was in imminent danger of being blown out to sea. The master of the smack, who was on shore...
Java
The No. 1 Life-boat Bolion was launched at 12.30 A.M. on the llth April in response to distress signals from a vessel on the West Barnard Sands. On reaching the sands the tug Java, of London, was found stranded and the Life:boatmen were at...