LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Laurel, of London
A heavy gale was sweep- ing along the coast of South Devon on the night of the 23rd November, when rockets were observed at Mount Batten, indicative of some shipping disaster; and it being presently ascertained that a sbjp had parted from...
Elizabeth Kloosterboer
RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.—On the 1st March, at about 3 A.M., a light was seen for a short time, apparently from a vessel off Rhosneigir. The crew of the Life-boat Thomas Lingham assembled, and the boat was got out, but the light disappeared, and...
Hexan
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 6.35 p.m.
on 22nd June, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on a sandbank 1\ miles south east of Buxey Beacon.
The life-boat Valentine...
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SEPTEMBER 29TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 5.30 in the afternoon information was received at the life-boat station that five men, who had been collecting cattle from the islands to the south of Barra, were then on Pabbay Island and could...
J. M. J.
APPLEDORE, NORTH DEVON.—Signals of distress having been observed, the Lifeboat Jane Hannah MacDonald was launched at 8.20 P.M. on the 20th January in a moderate S.W. wind, a heavy sea, and thick weather. The schooner J. M. J., of Bideford,...
Neath Castle
Stronsay, Orkneys.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1957, the Kirkwall coastguard tele- phoned that the trawler Neath Castle, of Grimsby, had an injured man on board. She was being towed by the motor vessel Stoke...
Floradora
Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 11.13 on the night of the 15th of November, 1957, the coastguard reported that a vessel was making distress signals about half a mile off Anstruther harbour.
The life-boat James and Ruby Jackson...