LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
THIEVES to SHAME
After a charity box containing up to about £20 had been stolen from the lounge bar of the City of London public house, Gravesend, Kent, a 'mystery' women put the thieves to shame when she walked in and handed the landlord a...
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Ailsa Lady
Girvan, Ayrshire - At 11 a.m. on 4th November, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the lighthouse tender, taking a relief keeper to the Ailsa Craig lighthouse, was in difficulties. At 11.20 the lifeboat James and...
Moss Rose
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 11.40 a.m. on 2Oth October, 1965, the coastguard told the coxswain that the fishing coble Moss Rose was out in conditions likely to deteriorate. The life-boat Friendly Forester was launched in a strong...
Eilean Mo Grhidh
Norman Salvesen was involved in a less hazardous, but nonetheless demanding, tow on 7 April this year when she successfully brought the 450-ton cargo vessel Eilean Mo Grhidh to safety after her engines had failed and the tide was sweeping...
Janice
Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 25th of April, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with her sails blown away was drifting six and a half miles south-by-east of Durlston Head.
The...
Nora
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.51 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1957.
the watchman on the east pier reported that a yacht about two miles from the Quern buoy was signalling for help. She could apparently make no...
Finbar
Baltimore, Co. Cork. On the 6th of April, 1958, the fishing boat Finbar of Skibbereen, on passage from Baltimore to Clonakilty, broke down with engine trouble just outside Baltimore harbour.
She was drifting helplessly...
Island Commodore
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1954, the motor vessel Island Commo- dore, of London, bound for Cherbourg with thirty-seven people on board, wire- lessed the life-boat station that her steering...
Ada Gane
PALLING, NORFOLK.—While a moderate wind was blowing from E. by N., accompanied by a heavy sea and a dense fog, on the 26th February, the Coxswain of the Life-boat was informed that a vessel was riding in a dangerous position near the outer...
A Herring Drifter
NOVEMBER 30 TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW. At 9.15 P.M. a message was received from the civic guard that a fishing boat was showing distress signals half a mile up the north shore, and at 9.40 P.M. the motor life-boat Inbhear Mor was...