LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Naval Sailing Cutter
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire.—At 11.49 on the night of the 16th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that a small naval sailing cutter bound for Aber- deen was overdue, and asked if the life-boat would search. At 12.50 early on the 17th the...
True Vine
APRIL 2ND. - NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 6.56 P.M. the Collieston coastguard reported that a fishing vessel was showing distress signals, south of the River Ythan, and the motor life-boat John Ryburn was launched at 7.30 P...
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FOOD TO A STARVING ISLAND Aith, Shetlands. — For nearly three weeks the island of Papa Stour had been cut off from the mainland and the islanders were starving. On January llth, 1947, the food executive officer for Shetland asked for the...
Oregon 1
JANUARY 4TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At 8.10 in the morning the Bangor coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Wilson Point, Belfast Lough. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat...
Elisabeth
ST. ANDREW'S, FIFESHIRE.—The barque Elisabeth, of and from TSnsberg for Leith, with a cargo of pit-props, was seen in St. Andrews Bay steering N.N.W., about three miles off the shore at 4 P.M. on the 16th March. It seeming probable that...
W. S. Treherne
FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAT.—Guns were fired at Llanstephan during a gale from the S.W. and a heavy surf with thick rain on the 7tb. July, and a signal of distress was afterwards shown by the smack W. S. Treherne. The Life-boat City of...
Fingal
NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.-—During the heavy westerly gale and rough sea on the 27th February, the Coxswain of the steam Life-boat Queen received a message that a vessel had foundered off North Wall and that the crew had taken refuge in the...
A Catamaran
Selsey, Sussex. At 5.31 on the even- ing of the 14th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a catamaran had capsized a quarter of a mile south of Selsey Bill.
The life-boat Canadian Pacific...
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Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5.5 on the evening of the 3rd June, 1961, the coxswain was informed that someone had fallen over the cliffs at the Nose of Howth. Ten minutes later the life-boat R.P.L. put to sea with her boarding boat in...
A Dinghy
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1958, the police informed the coxswain that a man was clinging to an upturned dinghy five hundred yards from the shore and two miles north of Skegness pier. The life-boat...