LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Scottish Maid
A fortnight later, on Thursday June 4, the fishing vessel Scottish Maid on passage from Wick to Kirkwall went ashore half a mile south of Noss Head Light; there were three men on board.
It was a fine night with variable...
Sea Flight
ADRIFT FOR THIRTY-ONE HOURS Minehead, Somerset. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 23rd May, 1963, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that he had seen the cabin cruiser Sea Flight displaying a distress signal.
There...
Try Again
Torbay, Devon. At 1.45 early on the morning of the 15th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing boat had left Dartmouth a few hours earlier and had not returned. Further enquiries were being made...
Sandbanks Queen
Poole, Dorset. At 6.45 on the even- ing of the 6th of December, 1959, the police at Poole told the honorary secretary that the motor boat Sand- banks Queen was overdue from a fishing trip in the harbour with nine or ten people on board. The...
H.M. Destroyers G51 and H78 (1)
OCTOBER 17TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the morning the coastguard reported that two vessels were ashore off Whitburn.
A moderate breeze was blowing, with a moderately rough...
Maggie Noble, of Fraserburgh
FEBRUARY 9TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
About 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had gone aground on the bar on the north side of Girvan harbour. A fresh south-south-west wind was blowing, with a...
Tiller Master (David Jolly)
THE ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER AUTOMATIC STEERING on a COMPASS COURSE For craft 20-45ft. over 100lbs.
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Voluntary System
Delegates at the conference of voluntary life-boat organisations held at Malmoin Sweden, 28th-31st May, 1972, unanimously expressed their belief in the 'overwhelming advantages of the voluntary system' for the provision of an...
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Alnwick
PWLLHELI, CARNARVONSHIRE. — A schooner was seen to be dragging her anchors and drifting rapidly towards St.
Patrick's Causeway, while a moderate gale was blowing from the N.W., with terrific squalls and a heavy sea, on...
Mary James
PENZANCE.—On the 25th February the schooner Mary James of Fenzance was being taken into the floating dock when the W. gale caused her to part her warp, and being light she immediately drifted out of the harbour and towards the Cresser reef...