LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Shrimp Boat Lord Clyde
At 10.40 A.M.
on the 2nd August, during a moderate E.N.E. gale with heavy sea, the Coast- guard reported that a disabled shrimp boat was driving ashore about a mile to the southward. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 9th January, 1920.
Mr. HENRY B. FARGUS in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions:— £. s. d.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (don.) 5 - - CIVIL...
Category: Committee
Delightful (1)
COXSWAIN'S SONS RESCUED Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys, and Wick, and Thurso, Caithness- shire. At 5.30 p.m. on I7th December, 1963, the coastguard told the Longhope honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Pentland...
Gretafield
FEBRUARY 4TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 1.20 A.M. a message was received at Whitehills from the coastguard at Banff that flares had been reported about ten miles N.E....
Lifeboat Services
West Division Carried off shore LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Fleetwood lifeboat station at 1749 on Friday March 23, 1984, that a board sailor was in trouble a short distance from the shore opposite Rossall Hospital...
Category: Services
Albatross
On the 9th November, while this Lifeboat was on her way to London, another boat-having been placed on the station in her stead, she was signalled by the Tongue light vessel, and was informed that they had on board the crew of the wrecked...
The Aberdeen Trawler Evergreen
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire On the 18th January the Aberdeen trawler Evergreen was wrecked at Rosehearty.
The motor life-boat Lady Rothes rescued the crew of nine.—Rewards, bronze medal, and an increase in the usual money...
The American Steamer William H. Welsh, of Baltimore
FEBRUARY 26TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
The American steamer William H. Welsh, of Baltimore, had gone ashore and was totally wrecked, with loss of life, near Loch Ewe, in a north-north-east gale. Before the life-boat could...
Noordster
BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The schooner Noordster, of Alblasserdam, bound from Maracaybo for Hamburg, stranded on a rock, known locally as the "Oil Rock," off Hanover Point, westward of Brooke, in foggy weather on the 24th March. The...
The Sailing Boat Ripple
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.55 on the morn- ing of the 30th of September, 1954, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was burning flares south- west of Thatcher Rock. At 9.12, at high tide, the life-boat George Shee put out. The sea...