LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Service to Holland 1:
Service to Holland 1: On September 12. 1980.
the Dutch dredger Holland I was in danger of parting her moorings off Irvine Harbour in a westerly gale. Connel Elizabeth Cargill, Troon's 44ft Waveney lifeboat, launched to...
Category: Services
A Dinghy (1)
Just in time THE STATION HONORARY TREASURER of Stranraer saw a capsized dinghy, her crew in the water, some 300 yards from the shore at 1855 on Wednesday, September 1. He immediately drove to the boathouse where the honorary secretary and...
An Aeroplane (1)
JANUARY 6TH - 7TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the evening information was received from the coastguard that a British aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles south-west of Llanbedrog. A light...
Lifeboat Services (1)
AUGUST, SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 1991 Aberdeen, Grampian D class: October 27 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 27: August 8,11 (twice), 12, 21, 25, 31, September 3 and October 6 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 16 (twice), 23 (three times),...
Category: Services
A Small Boat (1)
Maryport, Cumberland.—At 6.35 in the evening of the 12th of November, 1948, it was reported that the life-boat bowman had gone fishing to the north in a small boat and had not returned.
A strong, squally wind was blowing...
Lifeboat Services (1)
NOVEMBER and DECEMBER 1990 JANUARY and FEBRUARY 1991 Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: December 12 and January 13 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: November 10, 17 and December 30 Aith, Shetland 52ft Arun ON 1100: November 2 Aldeburgh,...
Category: Services
Fishing Boats (1)
SEPTEMBER 18TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At six in the afternoon Whitby fishing boats and boats of the Scottish fishing fleets put out in moderate weather, but by nine o’clock it had worsened and the boats turned back. A strong...
Services by Shore-Boats (1)
BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. On the 2nd January, 1939, the crew of four of the motor trawler Yankee Girl were rescued by another fishing boat. - Rewards, £2 10s., with £3 for loss of fishing, and 2s. 6d. for fuel used, together with a...
Category: Services
Carillion, of Cowes (1)
RACE CASUALTY While the yacht Carillion of Cowes was taking part in the Fastnet race on 5th August, 1971, she struck rocks off the Lizard and was damaged.
At 9.30 p.m. the life-boat Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service JVo. 33)...
Margaret and Francis (1)
Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
—On the morning of the 16th December the Cockenzie drifter Margaret and Francis was bound, light, from Burghead to Leith, with a crew of three on board. A whole southerly gale was...