LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shannons named
Volunteer crews welcomed new Shannon class lifeboats in the Summer.
The second Shannon to be placed on station arrived at Exmouth, Devon, on 12 May. At Dungeness in Kent, HRH The Princess Royal officially named and...
Category: Articles
St. Austell, of Barnstaple
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 13th June the coastguard telephoned that a vessel about five miles N.N.E. of Clodgy Point was making distress signals. A moderate N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor...
A Dinghy
Dinghy capsize A LIFEBOATMAN, John Strachan, who is skipper of a ferry running from Largs Pier to Cumbrae, and Matthew Ramsay and Donald McMillan, skippers of fishing vessels Sea Nymph and Mhari Bhan, who were mooring their boats at Largs...
Roelfina II
The Motor Life-boat James Macfee was launched at 6.15 A.M. on 31st March in a half-gale from the N.N.W. with a moderate sea, in response to information from the Coastguard that a vessel with her sails torn appeared to be in distress outside...
Success, Gem, Provider A and Lead Us.
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of March, 1951, four fishing vessels were at sea in a strong easterly gale with a heavy ground swell, and anxiety was felt for their safety.
Accordingly, at 8.15 the No. 1...
Spes Melior
Arranmore, Co. Donegal-At 8.20 p.m. on 23rd January, 1967, the Malin Head radio informed the honorary secretary that the British trawler Spes Melior was drifting one mile south east of Tory Island. Her engine had broken down and she wanted...
Falcon
DANGEROUS POSITION Arbroath, Angus. At 8.50 a.m. on 3ist May, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a message had been received from a Carnoustie resident that a fishing boat had fired two red flares from a point off Dowrie. At 9.6 the...
Belmura
GUNWALES AWASH At 8.15 a.m. on I3th September, 1964, a local resident telephoned the honorary secretary to say that a cabin cruiser had gone aground in the fresh south-easterly breeze and moderate seas at Saundersfoot.
The...
A Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—2nd August, 1938. Two men who had gone fishing did not return when expected. A search was made, but in the meantime they came ashore.—Rewards, £14 14s..
A Small Boat (3)
Ramsgate, Kent.—25th September, 1938. Two boys had been reported missing in a small boat, but they were found fishing from the pier.—Rewards, £15 14s..