LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
NARROW SHAVE ON COD ROCKS PEOPLE at Tre-Arddur Bay, Anglesey, on 2nd September, 1971, saw a dinghy capsize about 50 to 100 yards south west of Cod Rocks. Maroons were fired immediately and at 4.50 p.m. the ILB was launched from Forth...
Marie Leonhardt
The German steamer Marie Leonhardt, of Hamburg, whilst bound from Scotland to Genoa with a cargo of coal, stranded on the Goodwin Sands, during a strong E.S.E.
gale and a very heavy sea, on the 17th January. Signals of...
Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd
electronic aids to navigation DEPTH—by HECTA echo-sounder, as supplied to the R.N.L.I. This instrument indicates depth by pointer and scale, and illumination for night use is by the virtually everlasting 'Betalite'. It has two range...
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J. W.A., of Aberayron
FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES. — On the 15th October the No. 1 Life-boat, Sir Edward Perrott, was launched at about 2 P.M., during a whole gale from the W.N.W., signals of distrejs having been shown by the schooner J. W.A., of Aberayron, bound from...
More Flowers for the Life-Boats
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat mention was made of the substantial sum which the Honorary Secretary at Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton had raised by the sale at the Boathouse of flowers from his garden. Now we have heard from another...
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Moses Parry
HOLYHEAD. — Signals of distress were shown by the schooner Moses Parry, of Carnarvon, on the evening of the 13th October, the vessel, which was on a voyage from Youghal for Conway, having stranded on the end of the breakwater, in a fresh...
Newlands
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. — While the wind was blowing from S.S.W., with the force of a strong breeze to a moderate gale, very squally, with a somewhat rough sea, and rain, on the 13th April, a signal of distress was shown by the ketch Newlands,...
Pilot Me, Provider and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 6th December, 1937, the local motor fishing boats Pilot Me, Provider and Success put out. Just before 2 P.M. they were seen returning, and as the sea was then breaking very strongly across the...
Cygnet
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 8.40 oil the evening of the 10th of July, 1950, a report was received that the sailing dinghy Cygnet was in a dangerous position, with two people on board waving for help. Sixteen minutes later the life-boat The Cuttle...
Smiling Morn
Southwold, Suffolk.—On the afternoon of the 5th June the Aldeburgh coastguard reported that a small motor fishing boat belonging to Southwold was passing northwards and making heavy weather. She was the Smiling Morn, with the life-boat's...