LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Barrels Lightvessel
MOTHER WAS DYING At 5.10 p.m. on 23rd July, 1964, the Irish Lights Office requested the services of the life-boat to land a member of the Barrels lightvessel crew whose mother was dying. It was a fine day with a smooth sea and light airs...
Gin
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 8.25 a.m. on I4th November, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small boat appeared to be in difficulties. The coxswain went to the boathouse and saw the two occupants of the boat waving an oar to attract...
William Crow
WEST HARTLEPOOL.—On the afternoon of the 3rd August, the brigantine William Grow, of Great Yarmouth, was seen to be drifting ashore. A whole gale was blowing from E.N.E., the weather was thick and there was a heavy sea, and as it did not...
An Aeroplane (2)
24th May.
An aeroplane crashed into the sea. A fishing boat picked up the body of the pilot, and the body of the passenger was recovered later.—Rewards, £10 7s.
The S.S. Baron Yarborough
Workington, Cumberland.—When the S.S. Baron Yarborough, of Ardrossan, was ready for sailing on the 19th of November, 1952, her wireless operator was missing. The steamer put out, but anchored off the port. When the operator arrived the...
Fishing Boats
PAKEFIELD, SUFFOLK.—A heavy gale sprung up suddenly from the N.E. on the morning of the 20th July, seriously jeopardizing several small fishing-boats belonging to Lowestoft which were fishing about four miles from the land S.E. of Pakefield....
United States Life-Boats
IN the June, 1964, number of THE LIFE-BOAT it was stated that a delegation from the United States Coast Guard which visited Europe in 1928 had decided that the Watson cabin life-boat of the R.N.L.I. was the most suitable for their purposes...
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A Fishing Boat (3)
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—23rd November, 1937. Anxiety had been felt for an overdue fishing boat, but she made Seaham.-—Rewards, £7 15*. 6d..
None (61)
NOVEMBER 19TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. Red lights, apparently dropped from an aeroplane, had been reported, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £21 13s. 6d..
None (52)
SEPTEMBER 19TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. An object had been reported in the water, but it was found to be only six rusty floats lashed together. - Rewards, £4 7s. 6d.