LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Spaniard
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 6 A.M.
on the 3rd January, 1939, the watchman at the life-boat station reported a steam trawler aground on the Trinity Sands. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. Watch was kept on the...
None (3)
Penlee, Cornwall.—23rd January, 1939. Early in the morning information was received from the coastguard that the St. Ives life-boat was out.
At 5 A.M. it was reported that signals had been seen off Clodgy Head.
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The S.S. Commar
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 6.46 A.M. on the llth October, 1939, the Gorleston coastguard reported a message received from Yarmouth that a vessel had apparently grounded on the Scroby Sands. A light S.W. wind...
Dunpelder
THREE MORE YACHTS HELPED Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 7.40 in the evening of the 5th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported 'that a yacht was making flares one mile south-west by south of Billowness. A south-westerly gale was blowing with...
An Ex-Naval Picket Boat
ENGINE-ROOM FLOODED Selsey, Sussex.—At 2.35 in the after- noon of the 20th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported a boat in distress between the eastern entrance to Chichester Harbour and Wittering Beach. A moderate south-westerly breeze...
A Twelve-Feet Dinghy
Minehead, Somerset. — At 7.50 in the evening of the 23rd of May, 1952, the police reported that a thirteen- year-old boy, who had run away from his home at Uphill and had taken a twelve-feet dinghy, had been seen by an aeroplane between six...
Dorothy
Margate, Kent. — At 2.36 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that a fishing vessel was aground on Margate sands.
The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 2.45.<...
A Yacht (1)
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 2.52 on the afternoon of the 1st of Septem- ber, 1957, the coastguard reported that a yacht had capsized south of the pier head. The life-boat Edian Court- auld put out at 3.5 in a slight...
Boy George
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 2.54 on the afternoon of the 14th of September.
1957, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was flying a distress signal about a mile and a half south-east of Southwold harbour. The life-boat...
Faith Star
Whitby, Yorkshire. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 22nd of Novem- ber, 1957, the crew of the fishing boat Faith Star reported on their return from fishing that the sea was breaking on the bar and that conditions were becoming...