LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Scrivens,
"NOW I CAN HEAR WELL I'VE A HAPPY HUSBAND" "I'm not what you'd call deaf", says Daphne Scott of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, "but I am hard of hearing. It's made life difficult for years. As I got...
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Godetia
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At five o'clock in the afternoon, on the 4th of Novem- ber, 1949, the coastguard reported a flare three miles north-north-east of Wick. Half an hour later the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched in a rough sea...
Washington
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.36 A.M.
on the 2nd September, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat authorities that the trawler Washington, of Grimsby, was ashore near Duncansby Head.
The weather was...
Marie Suzanne
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 3.36 on the afternoon of the 16th of February, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the engine-room of the Belgian trawler Marie Suzanne was on fire nine miles south-east of Clyth Ness. At four o'clock the...
The Danish Motor Vessel Jens Emil
TOWLINE PASSED TO DANISH MOTOR VESSEL Wick, Caithness-shire. At 11.55 on the morning of the 9th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Danish motor vessel Jens Emil had broken down four miles east of Wick. The...
Girl Betty
ROLLING HEAVILY Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2.40 a.m.
on I4th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Girl Betty of Peterhead was ashore on Proudfoot at the north entrance of Wick Bay....
A Life-Boat Christmas
ON the evening of Sunday the 23rd of December, last, a choir of over twenty voices, and a harmonium, gathered on the deck and in the cockpit of the Eastbourne life-boat Beryl Tollemache in her boat-house, and over the life- boat's radio...
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The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Steamer Denham
JULY 18TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. While the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board steamer Denham was engaged on survey work she struck a mine about two hundred yards south-west of Rock 3 Block buoy. She was completely wrecked, throwing her crew...
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Fairy Maid
During a strong W.S.W. gale and very heavy sea, on 6th March, flares were observed from the Fairy Maid, of Padstow, which was in distress close to the Clipera Rocks. On reaching the vessel the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland found...