LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sinai
TYRELLA, COUNTY DOWN.—On the 15th November the French brigantine Sinai, of Nantes, drove on outlying rocks off Eathmullan, in Dundrum Bay; one man got into the ship's boat, which soon capsized, but he contrived to hold on to it until...
Flanders
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 1.20 in the morning of the 18th of Saptember, 1948, the Bangor coastguard telephoned that a trawler had wirelessed that she had picked up two men, who had been adrift in a motor boat, and asked for the life-boat to...
Virgin
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 11.30 in the night of the 15th of Septem- ber, 1949, the parents of a fisherman and two boys reported that their sons had put out in the motor fishing boat Virgin, of Castlebay, but were now overdue. The...
Invermore, of Dublin (3)
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
Golden Gift
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 7.49 on the morning of the 24th of September, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say that the herring drifter Golden Gift, of Yar- mouth, had anchored in Yarmouth Roads and was...
Hopeful
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 29th of April, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing vessel Hopeful, of Thurso, had broken down twenty-five miles south of Wick. At three o'clock the life-boat...
A Motor Boat
Donaghadee, Co. Down. — At 12.10, on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1950, the Bangor coastguard reported that a motor boat was adrift in Donaghadee Sound. Twenty min- utes later the life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly was launched, in...
Jaymac
Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.7 on the morning of the 7th of June, 1951, the Lade coastguard reported the motor yacht Jaymac, of London, in need of help six miles south-west of Dunge- ness. At 9.45 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched...
Ann Gail
Howth, Co. Dublin.—On the evening of the 13th of September, 1952, an air- craft reported to the Dublin harbour office that a yacht was in difficulties half a mile east of Bailey Light, and at 9.15 the life-boat R.P.L. was launched. The sea...
Fiveie
Dover, Kent. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th of June, 1959, a local boatman reported that a motor boat was in difficulties off St. Margaret's Bay. At 5.20 the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings with the second...