LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Eumaeus (1)
DEC. 11TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN, AND WICKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
At 5.5 P.M. messages were received at Dun Laoghaire that a large vessel was aground on the Kish Bank, and that two tugs were being sent from Dublin to her...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WORKINGTON, CUMBERLAND.—In Con- sequence of a shipwreck having occurred here, with, loss of life, in September 1885, the local residents made application to the Institution to form a Life-boat esta- blishment at this port, and as a large...
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Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.
February Meeting.
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.—On the afternoon of the 8th January, the Avonmouth haven master...
Category: Services
A Life-Boat Medallist on His Visit to London
SECOND-Coxswain James Sim, of Fraserburgh, one of the medallists who was present at the Annual Meeting, was interviewed on his return home by the Fraserburgh correspondent of The Fishing News about his visit to London, and this is what he...
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St. Stephen (2)
THREE LIFE-BOATS TO A TRAWLER'S HELP Peterhead, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire, and Buckie, Banffshire.—At 3.5 in the afternoon of Jaimavy 6th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned to the Peterhead life-boat that the steam trawler St....
The S.S. Lindean
Whitehills, Banffshire.—At 10.4 on the night of the 8th of April, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that distress signals could be seen to the west of Macduff, and at 10.13 the motor life- boat, Civil Service No. 4, was...
Michel Swenden and Adrian Letzer (1)
Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Clac- ton-on-Sea, Essex. — At 1.12 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard reported that a message had been received from the North Foreland radio station that the motor...
The Patrol Boat Havoernen of the Royal Danish Navy (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 3rd of December, 1952, the fast patrol boat Havoernen, of the Royal Danish Navy, with a crew of twenty-four, which was taking part in exercises with British coastal...
Barge Aground Near Swanage
AT 1.55 on the afternoon of the 12th of December, 1955, the Swanage coast- guard told the honorary secretary of the Swanage life-boat station, Mr. W.
Powell, that the tug Flying Kestrel had passed a distress message to...
Category: Services
The S.S. Flying Enterprise (1)
The Lizard, Cadgwith, and Falmouth, Cornwall.—The S.S. Flying Enterprise, of New York, had been drifting help- lessly in the Atlantic Ocean for over a week, with only her captain on board.
She was listing very heavily. On...