LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Joseph Mitchell
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 6.45 on the night of the 8th of February, 1950, the S.S. Joseph Mitchell, of London, loaded with coal for Cork, was seen to be very close to the shore about one and a half miles south-west-by-west of Ballycotton. At...
The S.S. Birtley
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—On the afternoon of the 5th May the s.s.
Birtley, of Newcastle, ran aground about six hundred yards north of Whitburn Steel in a fog. She was bound, light, from Rotterdam to the Tyne. A moderate S.E....
A Rowing Boat and John West
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 9.38 on the morning of the 31st of January, 1953, the coastguard telephoned to say a man at Skellister had reported that two men had left Gletness Nesting in aten-feet rowing boat at 7.30 to attend to their fishing...
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Swanage, Dorset - At 10.20 p.m.
on 10th March, 1968, the coxswain learnt that two people were missing in the Studland to Swanage area. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 10.30 in a gentle west by north breeze with a...
Susmar
The Lizard—Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 1.42 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted five miles west of the Lizard lighthouse.lighthouse.
At 2.10 the life-boat The...
H.M. Motor Torpedo Boat 2007
MAY 22ND. - ABERDEEN, AND TORRY LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS. At 5.26 in the afternoon the harbour master reported that H.M. motor torpedo boat 2007 had stranded one hundred and fifty yards east of the old south breakwater. A north-easterly wind...
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1894
THE pressure of work thrown on the Board of Trade last year was so great that the Department was unable to issue until the close of the year their very valuable "Abstracts of the Shipping Casualties which occurred on or near the Coasts...
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Birthday Honours
HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the Birthday Honours for 1961 included:— Baronet. THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROLAND THOMAS NUGENT, D.L., J.P., president of the Cloughey...
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