LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Seamew
Ramsey, We of Man.—At 8.40 in the evening of the 8th of September, 1948, the coastguard reported that the yacht Seamew, of Ramsey, with a crew of two, had left for Douglas that afternoon and had not arrived. The motor life- boat Lady...
Bluebell
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. — Shortly before 6 o'clock in the morning of the 16th of September, 1948, a message was received from the coastguard that the motor fishing boat Bluebell, of Port Seton, had broken down nine miles to the...
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Galway Bay. At i p.m. on 24th October, 1965, the local doctor asked for the use of the life-boat to take a boy with a broken arm to the mainland for hospital treatment. No other suitable boat was available. The life-boat Mary Stanford, on...
Pilot Me II
Whltby, Yorkshire.-—At noon on the 26th of January, 1952, the second coxswain reported that the local motor fishing vessel Pilot Me II had wire- lessed that she was making for the harbour. A strong northerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy...
Snowdrop
Workington, Cumberland. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 17th of October, 1960, it was learnt that the trawler Snowdrop of Whitehaven had broken down about four miles north-west of Workington. There was a moderate south-south-westerly wind...
Francis Drake
Fowey, Cornwall - At 12.25 p.m. on 11th October, 1969, it was learnt that a boat was in difficulties at Lantivet bay. At 12.40 the life-boat Deneys Reitz slipped her moorings in a fresh east south easterly wind with a choppy sea. It was low...
Onward
NOVEMBER 5TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. The motor fishing boat Onward, of Rosslare Harbour, had not returned with the rest of the fishing fleet.
A N.E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain, and as the...
Letters
Lifeboat development • I was interested to read Captain Williamson Jones' letter in THE LIFEBOAT for July (page 8). I would like to make the following points: 1—My article was a reprint from the Yachting World where it was headed...
Category: Correspondence
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LIFE-BOAT RECOVERS DEAD BODY Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 3.20 p.m. on Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had received an urgent message from the Commandant of the Boys Brigade camp, who was...
Clara
The Covent Garden Life-boat was also launched at 2.15 A.M. on the 17th December, in reply to signals of distress, during a strong N.N.E. wind and a very heavy sea. She found the brig Clara, of Dublin, bound from Liverpool to the Tyne with a...