LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sunderland Tragedy
Criticisms of the absence of the Sunderland life-boat when a lifeguard was drowned in tragic circumstances near the Cat and Dog steps at Roker last August were refuted at the inquest on the lifeguard, Mr. John Ramsay. He had gone out to...
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Fishing Boats
Cromer, Norfolk. By noon, on 2yth November, 1965, the weather had deteriorated considerably and as five local fishing boats were still at sea it was decided to assemble the crew of the No. 2 life-boat. The life-boat William Henry and Mary...
Saint Austell
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.— At seven o'clock in the morning of the 14th of April, 1952, the keeper of the Hook Tower Lighthouse telephoned that the schooner Saint Austell, of Howth, bound for New York with a crew of two, was...
Excellent and Catherine
Clovelly, Devon.—On the morning of the 7th of July, 1952, a trawler was seen dragging her anchor until she passed from view, and the Hartland Point coastguard then kept her under observation. As her rate of drag increased and there was no...
Tryst
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 9th of August, 1952, the life-boat mechanic reported that a small sailing yacht appeared to be anchored a quarter of a mile to the east of the harbour entrance and was making signals...
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THREE BOATS CALLED Bembridge, Isle of Wight, Selsey and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.5 p.m. on i8th February, 1964, the coastguard told the Bembridge honorary secretary that a naval Sea Hawk aircraft was missing between St. Catherine's...
Integrity
STRANDED IN FOG Anstruther, Fife. At 9.15 a.m.
on 22nd May, 1964, a representative of a boatbuilders' firm at St. Monance asked if the life-boat would help the motor fishing vessel Integrity of St. Monance which had...
Corsair
TOW ROPE PARTED Troon, Ayrshire. At 10.15 a-m- on ist October, 1963, a pilot told the honorary secretary that a motor boat was burning flares about two miles north-west of Troon harbour. The life-boat James and Barbara Aitken left her...
Orient
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. At 8.28 on the morning of the 9th of October, 1957, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing vessel Orient, of Burnmouth, was aground close to the shore three miles north...
Flood Tide
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, At 8.35 on the morning of the 4th of October, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat had run ashore a mile and a half north of Orfordness lighthouse. Ten minutes later the coastguard...