LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mid-morning Mayday
15 June: Yarmouth, Solent At 10.33am a mayday call alerted the Yarmouth lifeboat to a yacht in trouble in gale force winds. A female crew member had been hit by the boom and suffered a serious injury. The...
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Evolution
During a strong N.E. breeze and very heavy sea on the 4th April a trawling smaok, named the Evolution, of Lowestoft, missed stays and drove on to the North Beach. As her position was a dangerous one, the crew of the Life-boat Keniwell were...
Phoenix
MOTOR FISHING VESSEL TOWED IN GALE Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 8.40 on the evening of Sunday the 25th August, 1963, the Penmon coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the m.f.v.
Phoenix, of Caernarvon, had been sighted...
Rugby
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — At 12.43 early on the morning of the 1st of February, 1955, the coastguard tele- phoned that a trawler had run on the rocks at Inverallochy. At 1.12 the life- boat The Duchesx of Kent was...
Hazel
Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 12.8 early on the morning of the 26th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing boat was in distress off Druridge Bay. At 12.30 the life-boat Richard Ashley was launched in a...
A Fishing Vessel
At 11.22 a.m. on 9th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there had been an explosion on board a fishing vessel. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched at 11.38 in a smooth sea. The tide was flooding....
Gold Medal for Peterhead.
The gold medal for gallantry has been awarded to Coxswain John B. McLean, of Peterhead, the silver medal to David F. Wiseman, the motor mechanic, and the bronze medal to each of the other six members of the crew for rescuing the crew of...
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Capable
On the 6th August the motor vessel Capable, of London, ran aground in Bigbury Bay in a dense fog, while bound to London with a cargo of stone.
She carried a crew of eight. The Master sent a man ashore, and the news was sent...
A Fishing Boat (2)
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN. — On' the 14th October, at about 10 A.M., the wind suddenly became squally from the W.
The Coastguard officer gave information that a fishing-boat was in danger outside Lifeof Long Rack, and as...
Daisy Picker
Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 1-lth of September, 1955, the honorary secretary noticed that the fishing boat Daisy Picker, of Tralee, was towing a raft towards Upper Tralee Bay. The tide was ebbing strongly, and half-way...