LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stormdrift II
Montrose, Angus - At 6.50 a.m. on 27th July, 1966, the m.f.v. Stormdrift II of Montrose was reported immobilized with fouled propellers five miles southeast of Scurdyness. The life-boat TheGood Hope was launched at 7.19 in a light westerly...
Raylight, of Greenock
Campbeltown, Argyllshire - At 10.32 p.m. on nth December, 1966, it was noted that a vessel was sounding her siren continuously near the entrance to the Campbeltown loch. The life-boat City of Glasgow II left her moorings at 10.52 in a fresh...
Children's Friend
North Sunderland, Northumberland - At ii a.m. on 6th May, 1967, the life-boat mechanic informed the honorary secretary that heavy seas were breaking across the harbour mouth and that the motor fishing vessel Children's Friend was making...
Tuatanga
Ramsgate, Kent - At 7.53 p.m. on 15th July, 1967, a message was received that a motor yacht had broken down and was drifting towards Broadstairs. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 8 o'clock in a gentle south...
The War Department Motor Vessel Caddel
NOVEMBER 3RD. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 5.42 in the evening, information was received from the naval authorities at Great Yarmouth, through the coastguard, that a motor vessel; outside Wells harbour, was leaking and in need of...
Spectator, of Whitby
On the same day the barque Spectator, of Whitby, was ob- served from Yarmouth to part from her cables, and after coming into collision with another vessel, to drive in the direc- tion of the Scroby Sands. The Mark Lane life-boat went off...
Captain O. M. Watts Ltd
LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT We hold stocks of all the flares and signals now compulsory for yachts over IS tons.
Also lifebuoys, safety belts, kapok cushions, bells, horns, whistles, fire-extinguishers, first-aid cases and a...
Category: Advertisement
Josephine II (2)
Hythe, Dover, and Folkestone, Kent.— On the night of the 13th-14th December the Hythe and Dover motor life-boats and a Folkestone fishing boat went out to the rescue of the crew of three of the motor fishing boat Josephine II, of...
A Motor Boat (1)
MCH. 18TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. A motor boat had been reported in distress off the Old Head of Kinsale, but she made safety while the lifeboat was searching for her.-Rewards,.
None (19)
JULY 16TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. Signals of distress wereheard, but the life-boat could find nothing.- Permanent paid crew : Rewards, £4 7s..