LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Boy
Shortly after 11 A.M. on the 5th October a small boat was observed about four miles to the N.E.of Buckie Harbour, evidently in dis- tress. By aid of glasses it was seen that the sail had been blown away and that the occupant was holding up...
Angloman (2)
HOLYHEAD, CEMAES and CEMLYN.— During a dense fog on the 9th February a large four-masted steamer, the Angloman, of and for Liverpool, with a general cargo and cattle, stranded on the West Flatters rocks. Fortunately the sea was smoothat the...
Vestlaan
Just after mid- night of the 1st May the coastguard re- ported that a vessel had fired distress rockets from a position 400 yards south of Portland Bill. She had gone ashore at the bottom of the cliffs. The sea was smooth, and a light...
Cap Lizard
Torbay, Devon. At 1.20 a.m. on 2ist December, 1965, the coastguard reported that a red rocket had been seen in a position five to six miles off Dartmouth in the area of Start Bay.
The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent...
Boy Eric
Exmouth, South Devon - At 10.7 p.m. on I2th June, 1966, it was reported that red flares had been sighted about two miles off Orcombe point. The lifeboat Michael Stevens left her moorings at 10.20 in a moderate to fresh south south easterly...
Amber Queen
Stronsay, Orkneys. At 12.5 early on the morning of the 14th of Decem- ber, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares were being fired from a vessel near Fersness Point, Isle of Eday. The life-boat The John Gellatly...
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Swanage, Dorset. At 12.54 early on the morning of the 17th of January, 1960, the police told the honorary secretary that three young men who had been climbing cliffs to the west of Durlston Head were missing. The police had organised a...
Zircon
On the bar TWO RED FLARES sighted on the south side of Portmadoc Estuary, near and inside the bar, were reported to the honorary secretary of Pwllheli lifeboat station by Coastguard Porthdinllaen at 0035 on Thursday, September 1. The wind...
A Cabin Cruiser
Cruiser in difficulties A CABIN CRUISER off Skinningrove which appeared to be in difficulties and was being kept under observation, was reported to Redcar lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1910 on Sunday, September 26,...
Val of Sandness, Norway
During a gale from the S.E., and in a heavy sea, on the 23rd Jan., a schooner was observed to run into St. Andrew's Bay at daybreak, in the di- rection of the West Sands, and close to the broken water. On a gun being fired to warn her of...