LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cedar Idris & The Dumb Barge Stanley Margetts & Barge Lady Mary
Just after one in the morning of 6th Janu- ary, the' Motor Life-boat Greater London was launched in answer to flares. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. She found the motor barge Coder Idris, of Rochester, with the...
Alice Eleanor
FISHGUARD.—On the morning of the 2nd March the coxswain of the Life-boat was informed by a messenger that a vessel was on her beam ends, with all her sails blown to rags, east of Strumble Head.
Shortly afterwards another...
Pilot Me
LAUNCH TO MOTOR FISHING VESSEL IN GALE Whitby, Yorkshire. At 11.45 on the morning of the 31st May, 1962, the coxswain reported that because of the bad weather the whole of the local fishing fleet had returned early with the exception of the...
The S.S. Duke of Lancaster
DEC. 10TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.
At 8.30 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the S.S. Duke of Lancaster, of Barrow, anchored about three miles N.E. of Ramsey, required a doctor to attend to an injured man...
Amelia Lauro (1)
MARCH 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH A N D G O R L E S T O N , N O R F O L K . A t 10.56 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the Italian steamer Amelia Lauro, of Naples, anchored in the roadstead off Britannia Pier, was making...
Glance and Glide (1)
BROADSTAIRS AND RAMSGATE. — The brigantines Glance and Glide, of Ramsgate, both bound for Ramsgate from the north with coal, came into collision off the North Foreland in a strong E.N.E. gale, snow squalls, and a heavy sea on the morning of...
The Sailing Boat Lalzi
AUGUST 11TH. - CLOGHER HEAD, CO. LOUTH. At 12.20 in the afternoon the Clogher coastwatching station reported, through the Civic Guard, that the sailing boat Lalzi, of Port Oriel, was in difficulty to the S.E. of Port Oriel. On board her were...
William Henry
RHYL, NORTH WALKS. — At about 2 A.M.
on the 18th November, the Coastguard on duty observed a vessel in a dangerous position opposite Rhyl, tat making no signals of distress. At about 3 o'clock the vessel appeared to be...
The Longshore Boats Schemz and Judith Ann
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.26 on the night of the 7th November, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a small boat was trapped under the north pier and that cries for help had been heard by the...
Wilhelmina
RAMSGATE and BROADSTAIRS.—On the morning of the 22nd October the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the harbour steam-tug Aid, and the Broadstairs Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins, proceeded to the Goodwin Sands in reply to signals of...