LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Merite
FEBRUARY 21ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 10.40 A.M. t h e coastguard reported a light E. by S. of Peterhead, and later reported that it was still to be seen, drifting northward. A fresh N.E. breeze was blowing with a moderate...
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Kilmore, Wexford.—At half past two in the afternoon on the 8th of August, 1949, a signal fire was seen on the Great Saltee Island. Two men were known to be camping there and, as a strong south-westerly breeze was blowing with a rough sea and...
Rapparee
Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork - At 8.40 p.m. on 2ist June, 1967, it was learned that the motor launch Rapparee had developed engine trouble and could not be contacted. The life-boat Sir Arthur Rose slipped her moorings at 8.50 in a fresh breeze...
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Swanage, Dorset.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 31st of July, 1954, when the life-boat was about to be launched for the life-boat flag-day, a police sergeant told the coxswain that a woman was missing and was thought to be on a cliff at...
Fairy Marine Group
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Barmouth, Merionethshire - At 11.40 a.m. on i6th February, 1967, cattle were reported to be trapped by the incoming tide among the groynes and rocks to the north of Llanaber Holt, about one and a half miles north of Barmouth. The life-boat...
Triumph
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. — About 4.30 in the afternoon of the 2nd of December, 1948, the coastguard tele- phoned a message received from Cross- bost Post Office that a motor fishing vessel, the Triumph, of Stornoway, appeared to be in a...
Cheviot Wind
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.50 on the evening of the 8th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser needed help a mile and a half south-east-by- south of the Bench Head buoy. The life-boat Sir Godfrey...
Hannah
LOWEBTOEF,— The coxswain of the Samuel PlimwU Life-boat was called at 6 A.sr. on the llth October as a schooner was observed driving over Corton Sands, the sea breaking over her. The crew were at once summoned, and the Life-boat proceeded to...
Brothers
The steam drifter Brothers, of Lowestoft, stranded on the north part of Corton Sands when bound for the fishing grounds on the £0th May. A fresh breeze was blowing from S.E. with a moderate sea and the weather was hazy. The Coastguard...