LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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ENGINE FAILED Sunderland, Co. Durham.—At 8.7 on the night of the 13th of November, 1947, the coastguard reported a flare two miles east of Ryhope. Seaham life- boat was unable to launch owing to the lowness of the tide and the Sunder- land...
Venus
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 9.30 in the morning of the 29th of November, 1947, the Runswick life-boat station telephoned that the motor fishing vessel Venus, of Whitby, had broken down oft Staithes and needed help. She was reported to be...
The S.S. Pibroch
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — At 7.10 in the evening of the 9th of March, 1948, the Southend coastguard reported a vessel in the Sound of Sanda burning a red light or flare, and the motor life- boat City of Glasgow was launched at 7.20 in a...
A Motor Launch
Falmouto, Cornwall.—At one o'clock in the morning of the 18th of June, 1948, a woman reported that her hus- band and another man had put out fishing in a motor launch the previous morning and had not returned. At 1.30 the motor life-boat...
Skylark
Hastings, Sussex. —• At 6.20 in the morning of the 13th of November, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was burning flares about two miles off Winchelsea, and later the Winchelsea coast watcher reported that the boat was...
Widgeon, of Rosslare
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford. — At 7.55 in the evening of the 13th of July, 1949, the Civic Guard at Rosslare Strand reported that a pleasure boat under sail, with a crew of five, had cap- sized about seven hundred yards from the...
H.M.S. Caledonia
Anstruther, Fifeshire. — About 10.30 in the morning of the 1st of August, 1949, the coastguard reported that naval boats were in a dangerous posi- tion off West Wemyss, and at 10.40 the life-boat Nellie and Charlie was launched. A very...
Flylyte
Margate, Kent.—About seven o'clock in the evening of the 7th of August, 1949, the coastguard reported a motor yacht ashore on Margate Sands four and a half miles north-west of the lookout, and the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil...
Taranaki
Torbay, Devon. — At 10.15 in the morning of the 30th of March, 1952, the life-boat shore attendant reported that a ship at the mouth of Torbay had asked for a pilot. The breeze from the east-north-east was moderate, but the sea was rough and...
Empress
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1952, the motor mechanic reported that the fishing boat Empress, of Wexford, with a crew of three, was in difficulties about three miles east of Kilmore...