LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Star of Victory (1)
OCT. 29TH . - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. The Aberdeen trawler Star of Victory had stranded near Keiss on the 15th October, 1939, and the Wick life-boat City of Edinburgh helped her on that day and rescued her crew of ten on the following day.<...
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Notes of the Quarter by the Editor . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . . 442 International Boat Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444 Technical Developments in the Life-boat Service by Commander F. R. H. Swann . . . . 446 New Year Honours ...
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MARCH 29TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE, AND BEAUMARIS, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY. A report had been received that an aeroplane was in distress and another that three men had baled out of an aeroplane, presumably the same one, but nothing could...
A Boat
MONTROSE.—On the 30th September, a boat containing three pilots put off from this place to a Norwegian barque, and one of the men was placed on board the vessel.
The boat then returned towards the shore, but the wind having...
Mrs E E Currie
Mrs E. E. Currie, who gave to the Institution the 52ft Arun relief lifeboat Edith Emilie..
Category: Obituaries
Vicuna
HTJNSTANTON, NORFOLK.—The barquentine Vicuna, of Hull, bound from Laurvig, Norway, to Hull, with ice, was observed ashore near Holme Point, at 5.15 P.M. on the 7th March, during a moderate gale of wind from the N.N.E. and a rough...
Enterprise
On the morning of the 26th May the coxswain saw the motor fishing boat Enterprise, of Hythe, in difficulties and drifting some distance to the S.W. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat City of...
Nellie
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—About 6.40 in the evening of the lit11 of April, 1949, the coastguard reported a fishing boat in difficulties to the southward, and the life-boat Jeanie Spears was launched at 7.5 in a fresh west-south- west breeze...
Mizpah
Montrose, Angus.—About 5.20 in the evening, on the 5th of June, 1950, the Usan coastguard telephoned that the local motor fishing vessel Mizpah was overdue. At 5.35 the life-boat The Good Hope was launched, in charge of the second coxswain,...
Elsa
Dover, Kent.—About 10.15 in the morning of the 24th of September, 1951, Lloyds signal station on the Eastern Harbour Arm reported that a yacht was driving towards the Arm, and at 10.25 the life-boat Southern Africa was launched. A moderate...