LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ross Cormorant
TOO ROUGH At 8.30 a.m. on 9th of April, 1966, the Lloyd's agent told the honorary secretary that the trawler Ross Cormorant would be in Bridlington Bay at 8.30 p.m. and wished to have a sick man taken off. He had asked for a coble to go,...
Mer Gaspard
Dover, Kent - At 9 a.m. on 14* April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht, with a crew of four on board, off Shakespeare cliffs had sent up distress flares. The lifeboat Southern Africa left her moorings...
Windy Wyne
Weymouth, Dorset - At 10.46 p.m.
on ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor cruiser Windy Wyne of Falmouth had asked for assistance as her engine had broken down half a mile north-west...
Hermus
Baltimore, Co. Cork - At 7.30 p.m.
on 29th May, 1966, the Hare Island Post Office informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had grounded on a rock between Hare Isle and Cunamur Point (Taylor's Rock). The life-boat...
H.M. Destroyer Erne
APRIL 30TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 10.22 P.M. a message was received from the Fraserburgh coastguard that H.M. Destroyer Erne had been bombed when ten and a half miles from Kinnaird Head, and at 11 P.M. the motor...
The S.S. Conakrian
OCTOBER 23RD. - ABERDEEN. As pre.
viously reported the No. 1 life-boat Emma Constance had been out on service to the S.S.
Conakrian, of Freetown, on the 20th October, and again on the 22nd. Early in the...
Fishing Boats (4)
DECEMBER 1ST. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
The Runswick and Staithes cobles were out fishing in a moderate wind, but during the morning the wind increased to a strong gale from the N.N.W., with a rough sea and heavy rain, and the...
Services by Shore-Boats (3)
BURRA ISLE, SHETLANDS. While out haddock fishing in a small open boat from Skeld three men were thrown into the sea when their boat was capsized by a squall. The accident happened at about 7.30 A.M. on the 18th March, 1939, when the boat was...
Category: Services
Suzanne Renee
FEBRUARY 8TH. - ST. HELIER, JERSEY.
At 10 A.M. news was received from a fisherman that a French fishing boat was ashore on the rocks about one mile S.E. of the island. A light northerly wind was blowing with a moderate sea...
Forager
, KENT. — The ketch Forager, of Portsmouth, from Seaham to Chichester, with coal, with a crew of four men, stranded near Kingsgate Castle on the 22nd February. A Coastguard boat proceeded to her assistance, and endeavoured to get her afloat,...