LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marechal Suchet
NEW BRIGHTON.—A telephone message having been received from the lightkeeperat Bidston lighthouse on the llth June, reporting that a ship was on fire in Fonnby Channel and was showing signals of distress, the steam Life-boat Duke of...
Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire. — During the morning of the 4th of February, 1952, a strong north-easterly gale was blow- ing and the sea was heavy. The Whitby fishing vessel Lead Us was at sea, and at noon she wirelessed asking if it were possible to...
Don’t Know
NOVEMBER 12TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 2.25 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a fishing boat making distress signals two miles south-east of the coastguard station. A gentle south-westerly breeze was blowing, and...
Life-Saving Hammocks
AMONGST the various articles designed to save life on occasions of disaster to ships, perhaps one of the most natural was a seaman's bed or mattress, composed of buoyant materials. Since the space on shipboard for the stowage of anything...
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Plouer
About 1 P.M. on the 29th June, during a whole N. by E.
gale, information reached Margate that a ketch was in distress off Reculvers.
With considerable difficulty owing to the heavy surf breaking on the...
Cimbri
At about 7.30 A.M. on the 30th January the Second Coxswain of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 received a message stating that a schooner was ashore on the west end of the Nore Sands. As a strong E. by S. wind was blowing, with a rough sea,...
Greylass
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1952, the life-boat coxswain asked local people to keep a look-out for the fishing vessel Greylass, of Hoylake, which was overdue with a crew of three. Nothing...
Mollia
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—During thick fog on the afternoon of the 9th of Decem- ber, 1952, a vessel about two miles south-east of the harbour was heard blowing her siren, and at 5.15 the coastguard telephoned that flares had been seen. At 5.22...
Meligunis
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 10.35 on the night of the 11 th of December, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel had gone aground at Galloway Rock, near Greencastle. At 10.48 the life-boat Lady Scott, Civil Service...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 8.52 on the evening of the 30th of August, 1958, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message that a fishing boat was making distress signals off the Barmouth Fairway buoy. At 9.20 the life-boat...