LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pauline
On the llth December, 1932, the 4,920- ton steamer Pauline, of Panama, came to anchor in a very dangerous position in Tramore Bay. She was bound, light, from Glasgow to Barry, but had had engine trouble when near Holyhead, become...
Sodality
TWICE AGROUND Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 3.20 in the morning of the 10th of November, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that the motor vessel Sodality, of London, had been in collision with No.
39 Buoy near the Sunk...
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INJURED BOY BROUGHT BY SKIFF TO LIFE-BOAT Wicklow. At 6.58 on the evening of the 10th June, 1962, a member of the Garda told the coxswain that a boy had fallen fifty feet down a cliff three miles south of Wicklow. The life-boat /. W. Archer...
Pegasus
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 30th of December, 1956, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that the Dutch vessel Pegasus, of Groningen, was on fire 25 miles south-west of Portland Bill and that her deck cargo was...
Bonita
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 7.45 oil the evening of the 7th of July, 1957. the Penmon coastguard telephoned to say a flare had been seen between Great Ormes Head and Puffin Island. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at 8.10...
Apeloiter
Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.02 a.m.
on 9th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was anchored one hundred yards offshore of Chesil Cove. Two men on board had come ashore to obtain fuel...
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D class, Tyne and X boat rescue fallen climber Holyhead's D class inflatable was called out at 1600 on 21 April to a man who had fallen 90ft from a cliff at North Stack.
The D class was taken through rough, surging 6ft...
Maria Jane
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. — The lugger Maria Jane, of Peel, left the harbour at about 4 p.m., on the 26th March, for mackerel fishing off the coast of Ireland.
A strong breeze was then blowing from N.N.W. and the sea was rough....
Fishing Boats (4)
MONTROSE and JOHNSHAVEN.—On the 29th February a heavy sea was breaking on the bar at Montrose and a strong wind from the E.N.B. suddenly sprung up.
As three of the fishing boats were at sea the Life-boat Augusta was...
Topsy
EXMOUTH. — A telegram from Dawlish was received at midday on the 7th October, stating that the services of the Life-boat were urgently needed by a vessel lying off that place. A gale of wind was blowing from the W.W.W., and there was a very...