LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cruiser
Troon, Ayrshire. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of January, 1958, the Portpatrick coastguard told the honorary secretary that the tug Cruiser of Glasgow, was aground alongside the S.S. Ballyhalbert half a mile north of Ardrossan. The...
Lijnbaan
Caister, Norfolk. At four o'clock on the morning of the 30th of May, 1958, a life-boat shore helper saw a vessel I aground on the Scroby Sands. At 5.15, after consultation with the coast- guard, the life-boat Jose...
Sea Lion
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 12.13 early on the morning of the 10th July, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Strumble Head lighthouse that a red flare had been seen two miles to the north-west. There...
Kemrix
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 1.50 early on the morning of the 25th of August, 1961, the coxswain was informed that the motor vessel Kemrix of Hull was anchored a mile and a half north-north-east of Rosslare Harbour with engine trouble....
Mystic, of Newport
On the 2nd Jan., 1873, the Princess of Wales Life-boat at this station, in answer to signals of distress, proceeded to the brig Mystic, of Newport, which she leached shortly before midnight.
Previous efforts had been made...
Tyro
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At 1.40 A.M. on the 5th of January, flares were seen on the Barber Sand during a fresh breeze from S.S.W. and a moderate sea. A yawl having been promptly launched, and proceeded to the sand, found the dandy Tyro, of London,...
Fishing Cobles (1)
In consequence of a dense fog which came on during the morning of the 15th April, when five of the cobles were at sea, their return in the heavy weather was attended with considerable risk.
The Life-boat Bobert and Sarah...
Fishing Cobles
CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the morning of the 15th April seventeen of the fishing cobles were out, chiefly engaged with the crab pots, when the sea began to rise. Six of the boats returned before the sea leached its height, one of these...
Provider and Daisy
The s.s.
Ixion, of Glasgow, while bound from Campbeltown to Coleraine with a cargo of coke, came to anchor in the Skerry Roads on the 14th April. She had been damaged off Bengore, her pumps were choked, and her fires were...
Fishing Boats
The local fishing fleet put out to sea shortly after daybreak on the 5th November.
Later a south-easterly gale sprang up, with squalls of rain, and a very heavy sea, making the harbour entrance ex- tremely dangerous. The...