LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Johs. Stove
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 12.30 early on the morning of the 23rd of Decem- ber, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tanker Johs. Stove of Oslo wanted to land a sick man and that her estimated time of arrival off...
Aberystwyth Lifeboats By Joan Davies
BACK IN THE TIME of the Romans the dip in the cliffs where the River Rheidol and the River Ystwyth come down to Cardigan Bay was already recognised as an important landing place, to be guarded with an encampment. At such a favourable strand,...
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Emulate, Radiant Morn, Harvest Moon and Jean
Amble, Northumberland. At 11.5 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the honorary secretary was in- formed that the local coble Emulate was overdue from fishing. It was almost high water when, at 11.15, the life-boat Millie Walton...
Lorn
HOLYHEAD.—On the 4th of April, 1886, at midnight, the schooner Lorn, of Lancaster, bound from Wicklow for Liverpool, showing signals of distress during a moderate gale from the S.W., the Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off to her assistance.<...
Jola
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—20th September. The Dutch motor vessel Jola, of Delfzyl, had stranded on the Scroby Sands, but got off unaided and came into Yarmouth Roads.— Rewards, £9 10s..
Mary Johns
At about 1 a.m. on the 9th April, the Coastguard reported that rockets were being fired from the Tongue Light- Vessel ; the crew of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 were thereupon summoned and the boat was as soon as possible launched. The...
Brothers Pride, of St. John's
NEW BRIGHTON.—About sunset on the 17th January the barque Brothers Pride, of St. John's, bound from that port for Liverpool, while in tow of a steam-tug, got ashore on Taylor's Bank at the entrance of the River Mersey. The weather...
The Phoenix Was Inflatable By Joan Davies
UNDER THE NEVER-CEASING INFLUENCE of current and tidal stream, the coastline of our islands quietly moulds its contours to the pattern of the sea. Equally, our seaboard towns and villages reflect in their industries, population and way of...
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