LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Diane
DECEMBER 18TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
About 11.30 in the morning messages were received from the coastguard and the R.A.F. that a yacht off Newlyn was dragging her anchors in a dangerous position and in need of immediate help....
Rose Mary
DECEMBER 7TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
When the evening came the local motor fishing boat Rose Mary had not returned and anxiety was felt for her safety.
About eleven o’clock the coastguard reported a small...
Doric
JULY 13TH. - LYNMOUTH, DEVON. At about 7.30 P.M. a motor yacht was seen flying a distress signal. A squally southerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. T h e pulling and sailing life-boat Prichard Frederick Gainer was launched at 7.50 P.M...
Watercress
OCTOBER 12TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At 11.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a fishing vessel was flashing signals about two and a half miles off-shore, and later they reported that she had fired a red Very...
Maygough
OCTOBER 1ST. - CLOGHER HEAD, CO. LOUTH. At nine at night the local motor trawler Maygough was reported to have been burning flares about seven miles north-east of Port Oriel at seven o’clock. Another trawler had gone to her help, but had not...
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1876
THERE can be few Englishmen who are not aware that during several years past a very uneasy feeling has pervaded the British mind as regards the general status of our "Mercantile Marine," alike as regards the vessels of which it is...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat (2)
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN. — On' the 14th October, at about 10 A.M., the wind suddenly became squally from the W.
The Coastguard officer gave information that a fishing-boat was in danger outside Lifeof Long Rack, and as...
Carleon
HOLYHEAD.—At G.30 A.M., on the 24th January, the Thomas Fielden Life-boat proceeded in tow of the steam-tug Royal Saxon to the assistance of the steamer Carleon, of Cardiff, which had dragged her anchor and stranded in Holyhead Bay during a...
William of, Londonderry
On the 1st March the brigantine William, of Londonderry, was seen driving into Dun- drum Bay, during a strong S.S.E. wind.
She had her foremast carried away by the deck, and was waterlogged. The Life-boat Reigate was...
Thelma
The Life- boat Mary Batger was launched shortly after noon on the 19th August to the assistance of the pleasure coble Thelma, of Saltburn, which had put to sea with three persons on board. A N.W. gale suddenly sprang up, making the coble...