LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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JUNE 6TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 5.32 P.M. the South Shields coastguard reported that three boys were marooned on rocks. The tide was half flood, and the weather fine, with a slight sea.
A motor...
Arfon
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 3.32 on the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Arfon was in difficulties two miles north-east of Trevor. She had a crew of four...
Sprite
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — On 22nd April, 1939, the coastguard kept a yacht under observation for some hours. The sea was very heavy, a N.W. gale was blowing, and it was decided to send out help. At 2.25 P.M. the motor lifeboat Edward Z....
Royal Empire, Silver Line and Gallilee
MAY 16TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning a strong N.E. wind was blowing with a very rough sea. About 10.15 it was learnt that two small fishing boats were returning. Then just as the motor life-boat Mary Ann...
Daybreak
Between 10 and 11 A.M. on the 10th January the ketch Daybreak, of Peterhead, bound for Stonehaveu with a cargo of coal, came into Stonehaven Bay with the intention of making the i harbour. The wind was blowing \ Lifestrongly from the south...
Indorita
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; and Howth, Co. Dublin. At 10.44 on the morning of the 11th of February, 1960, the honorary secretary at Clogher Head received a mes- sage from Valentia radio that the motor vessel Indorita of Liverpool needed help...
Solan
OCTOBER 14TH.. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. On the night of the 13th the Carne look-out post reported that it had heard a ship give three blasts on her whistle near Findale Perch, and thought she must have gone aground. The weather was...
Coxswain John Strachan of Peterhead
JOHN R. STRACHAN, a former coxswain of the Peterhead life-boat, died on the 1st of July at the age of 82.
Coxswain Strachan was awarded the silver medal of the Institution for the rescue of the crew of nine of the trawler...
Category: Obituaries
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: APRIL 1992 Mrs Connie Waite, president of the Barrow ladies' guild since 1988. Mrs Waite served as secretary from 1959 to 1980 and was treasurer from 1985 until her election as president....
Category: Obituaries
Normauwil
Belgian trawler LAND'S END COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Penlee lifeboat station at 0200 on Wednesday March 19, 1980, that the Belgian trawler Normauwil was stranded near the north arm of Newlyn Harbour, a mile north...