LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ros Bremore
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 3.32 p.m.
on I4th January, 1966, a distress signal from the motor fishing vessel Ros Bremore was heard by the life-boat H. F. Bailey, which was on temporary duty at station, on her radio transmitter...
Sea Adventure
ADVENTURE AT SEA Dungeness, Kent. At 2.50 p.m. on 8th August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a fishing boat had broken down and was lying at anchor half a mile off Littlestone. Her crew were waving for help while they baled her...
Ilfracombe Visitors' Book
IT should be of interest to Life-boat workers, particularly those connected with Stations at seaside resorts, to read the following summary of the visitors' book kept at the Ilfracombe Boat-house in the summer of last year. During the...
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Radio Caroline
Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 2.20 a.m. on 22nd December, 1965, the coastguard reported that the captain of "Radio Caroline", a wireless transmitting station, had been badly bitten by the dog that was kept on board and that a doctor was...
Esk, of Montrose
The North Briton life-boat at Donna Nook brought ashore 6 men from the schooner Esk, of Montrose, which had gone ashore on the sands off Donna Nook.
A Trawler (1)
27th February. A trawler ran ashore, but the Board of Trade rocket apparatus had rescued the crew before the life-boat arrived.— Rewards, £10 6s. 3d..
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Selsey, Sussex. — At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1952.
the West Wittering police reported that a fourteen-feet sailing dinghy, which had a crew of two from H.M.S.
Collingwood, had capsized...
Fishing Boats (1)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 31st of August, 1956, there was a heavy sea on the harbour bar. Local fishing boats and a fishing fleet from Scotland were at sea. Because of the conditions it was decided to launch the no. 1...
May Rose
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 9.43 on the night of the 26th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a small boat was showing a distress signal half a mile north of the harbour entrance. The life-boat Louise Stephens was...
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