LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Hunter
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 12.58 early on the morning of the 8th of November, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the trawler Sea Hunter, which had a crew of twelve, had wire- lessed that she was leaking off the Shiant Islands, and...
Gularis
Seaham,"? Durham.—At 4.27 in the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1948, the coastguard reported a boy drifting seawards in a rubber dinghy off Hoiden, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Witts Allen was launched at 4.55 in a light...
Ephratah
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.10 in the morning of the 4th of September, 1948, information was received that a trawler, which had gone ashore at Saddle Point, was blowing her syren and burning flares, and the motor life- boat White Star was...
Striving
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 9 o'clock on the night of the 29th of January, 1948, it was reported that the local motor fishing boat Striving, with a crew of four, was overdue. A gale warning had been received, and at 9.20 the motor life-boat R...
Reliance
CULLERCOATS.—On the 20th November the Reliance fishing-coble, which had gone out at 4 A.M. for the purpose either of piloting or fishing, was returning to the harbour at about 9.30, by which time the sea had much increased, and it was...
Skjold
BEMBRIDGE, I.W.—At about 7 P.M. on the 14th October the City of Worcester Life-boat put off to the assistance of the Norwegian brigantine Skjold, which had lost her masts and was drifting during a W. gale. A steam-tug had arrived at the...
Luna
On the 3rd June an alarm was given that there was a vessel ashore on Whitley Sands. At 4.20 A.M. the Life-boat was launched, proceeded to the vessel through a rough sea, the wind blowing a moderate breeze from N.E., and rescued her crew of...
Monte Gurugu (1)
Appledore, Clovelly, and Df racombe, Devon.
—On the 13th of November, 1949, all three life-boats went to the help of the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu, which was foundering at the entrance to the Bristol Channel, and rescued...
Lenie (1)
TOWED OFF ROCKS Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.
At 5.5 a.m. on i8th March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a Dutch motor vessel was ashore eight miles south-west of Porthdinllaen Point. There was a...
David & Ann
Filey, Yorkshire. At 11.10 a.m. on i6th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble, five miles east of Filey buoy, was at sea in worsening weather conditions. The life-boat The Isa & Penryn Milsted...