LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shamrock
THEDDLETHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE. — At daybreak on the 19th April the trawler Shamrock, of Hull, was observed ashore about a quarter of a mile N. of the Theddlethorpe Life-boat station, during stormy weather and a very heavy...
Model Engineer Exhibition
THE Model Engineer Exhibition very kindly gave the Institution space for a display when it was held this year at the Horticultural Hall from August the 9th to the 19th. The Institution showed models of the first lifeboat, a pulling and...
Category: Articles
An Attacker Aeroplane
Cromer, Norfolk.—About three o'clock in the afternoon of the 6th of March, 1952, the police reported an aeroplane in difficulties and at 3.25 the coastguard telephoned a message from the R.A.F. No. 19 Group that the aeroplane was an...
Carraig Gonair, Julia Christian
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork - At 5.30 p.m. on 8th April, 1970, the life-boat coxswain, who was fishing in the trawler Mary Bernadette, picked up a member of the life-boat crew in a punt from the lobster boat Carraig Gonair which had...
Vineta
Lifeboatman overboard during long service to stricken coaster Members of the Scarborough lifeboat crew hauled their own Second Coxswain, John Trotter, to safety aboard their new Mersey class lifeboat Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs...
Pride of Lambay, of Dublin
JUNE 2ND. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
Just before midnight on the 1st of June information was received that a boat had disappeared. The fishing boat Pride of Lambay, of Dublin, had towed a boat to Arklow and had been left tied...
Wigeon
Adrift OBAN COASTGUARD picked up a distress call in the early hours of Tuesday June 14 from the 20ft yacht Wigeon with an elderly couple on board. Wigeon had broken adrift from a mooring in Craignure Bay, Isle of Mull, her outboard engine...
Sela
During a whole N.E. by N. gale on the 12th January an exciting scene was witnessed on the beach at North Deal. At about 7 o'clock flares were observed from a sinking vessel, which had been in col- lision and was then lying less than a...
Isabella
EASTBOUBNX.—In the afternoon of the 24th of September, during a strong gale from the S.W., and a rough sea, it was reported that a large vessel was ashore near Bexhill Coastguard Station. The Wittiam and Mary Life-boat was taken to the spot,...
Neath Castle
Stronsay, Orkneys.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1957, the Kirkwall coastguard tele- phoned that the trawler Neath Castle, of Grimsby, had an injured man on board. She was being towed by the motor vessel Stoke...