LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kingfisher
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At 10.30 on the night of the 15th of April, 1948.
the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Kingfisher, of London, needed a doctor to attend to her chief officer.
As no other...
Croix du Sud
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 7.45 in the evening of the 3rd of May, 1948. the Civic Guard reported that a French trawler, the Croix du Sud, had struck a bank and had four feet of water in her hold. She was making for harbour and...
Providence
Margate, Kent.—During the evening of the 23rd of July, 1948, the sister of the skipper of the local fishing vessel Providence reported that the Providence had gone out fishing early that morning and was long overdue. The coast- guard was...
Easting
Clovelly, Devon. — At 9.14 in the morning of the 13th of August, 1948, the Lundy and Hartland coastguards reported a yacht to the south-east of Lundy Island which appeared to be in difficulties, and the motor life-boat City of Nottingham was...
Ocean Reaper
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 10.5 on the night of the 1st of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing vessel appeared to be in difficulties, and drifting, half a mile south-east of the breakwater, and at 10.40 reported that she was...
Silver Wake
Dover, Kent.—At 12.48 in the morn- ing of the 16th of January, 1949, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Llanstephan Castle had reported that a Sea Scout launch had broken down five miles south of Folkestone, and the life-boat...
A Fishing Boat (2)
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.— At 8.30 in the evening of the 31st of May, 1949, the Coast Life-saving Service at Blackwater reported that a fishing boat, which had been at anchor close inshore since noon, had now hoisted a flag, and the...
Ingerois
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. — At 2.15 in the afternoon of the 29th of June, 1949, the coastguard reported that a vessel, two miles east of Orfordness, and going north, was flying a signal that an acci- dent had occurred and a doctor was required....
Viva
St. Helier, Jersey.—At 10.45 on the night of the 1st of August, 1949, the harbour office reported that a resident of Bel Royal had seen a rocket off St.
Aubins, and at 11.20 the life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at...
Fire Fly
Shorebam Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.4 P.M. on the llth July the coastguard reported that a boat was in distress four and a half miles E.S.E. of Shoreham Harbour. A moderate S.W.
breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor...