LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sarah Elizabeth
MAY 19TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
During the afternoon a strong northerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea and rain squalls, and news was sent to the life-boat station that the open motor fishing coble Sarah Elizabeth...
Lundy
FISHERMAN SIGHTS CASUALTY FROM TREE TOP Swanage, Dorset. At 4.22 on the afternoon of the 23rd of November, 1962, a fisherman reported to the honorary secretary that he had seen, from the top of a tree, a fishing vessel drifting a mile off...
Dagon
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—On the morning of the 8th September the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Dundonnie Head, about one mile south of Buchan-ness lighthouse.
A moderate south gale was blowing, with a...
Cornish Lass
The ketch Cornish Lass, of Plymouth, whilst bound from Saundersfoot to Caldy Island in ballast, stranded on the North Sands on the llth November*. A strong E.S.E. gale prevailed at the time with a heavy sea, and the Life-boat William and...
Kingfisher IV
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.16 in the afternoon of the 19th of De- cember, 1948, a motor vessel informed Niton Radio Station of a fishing boat in. need of help nearly three miles out from Shoreham in a south- easterly direction, and the...
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Galway Bay. At 10.50 p.m. on i ith August, 1965, the local doctor asked for use of the life-boat to take an elderly man to the mainland for hospital treatment. As no other boat was available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her...
Juffertie
TOW FOR YACHT WITH INJURED MAN ABOARD St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 7.3 on the morning of the 3rd June, 1963, a message was received by radiotelephone from the yacht Juffertie that her master had cut his head and needed help. At 7.40 the...
A Salmon Yawl
Youghal, Co. Cork. While the lifeboat coxswain was fishing off Blackball Head on the afternoon of I5th June, 1965,, he noticed that a salmon yawl was in difficulties and being swept seawards. The coxswain returned to harbour, mustered the...
Teesmouth September 14 1986:
Teesmouth, September 14, 1986: Tees Dock quay space is normally full of steel ready for export. This particular Sunday, however, saw a small oasis of colour appear as the site was made ready for the naming ceremony of Teesmouth's 47ft... - View image in PDF
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Mark Lisa
WORKINGTON, Sunday January 6, 1985: a 33ft fishing vessel, Mark Lisa, with two men aboard, on passage between Fleetwood and Tarbert on the Clyde, suffered engine failure and drifted on to rocks at St Bees Head. She then floated off, leaking...