LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alethea II
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.50 in the evening of the 1st of September, 1951, the coastguard reported that the yacht Alethea II, of Harwich, was aground at the mouth of the River Aide. Her crew of three were able to walk ashore. Later she...
Joles II
Southend - on - Sea, Essex. — About 10.25 on the night of the 1st of Sep- tember, 1951, the coastguard reported that flares and a rocket had been seen off Shell Ness Point, and at 10.46 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3, was...
The S.S. Don
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.45 on the night of the 21st of January, 1952, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Don, of Goole, which was at anchor half a mile west of the Middle Light Buoy, had reported that her second officer had...
The S.S. Effra and Mardi Gras
FISHING COBLE TOWED TO HARBOUR Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 5.22 on the afternoon of the 12th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Effra had reported that she had the local fishing coble Mardi Gras with a...
The Lily
Humber, Yorkshire.—Just before noon on the 31st May a small fishing boat, The Lily, of Grimsby, drifted ashore inside Spurn Point. She was in no immediate danger. A moderate N.N.W.
breeze was blowing, with a slight...
Thistle
Eastbourne, Sussex.—The motor lifeboat Jane Holland was launched at 12.10 P.M. on the 23rd July, as it had been reported that the Royal Sovereign light-vessel was flying a distress signal.
A S.W. gale was blowing, with a...
Kentish Maid
At 2.48 p.m. on 6th October, 1967, the motor mechanic informed the assistant honorary secretary that a coaster two miles off Anvil point had reported that a small boat inshore ofher was firing flares. In the meantime a message was received...
Ruan
Swanage, Dorset - At 9.57 p.m. on 23rd August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Yewforest had reported that she was standing by the yacht Ruan which was in difficulties 14 miles south west of Anvil point...
Linda
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 9.35 a.m.
on 19th November, 1969, the coastguard reported that a motor boat was flashing a light one mile south of Cooper's beach. The life-boat Valentine Wyndham-Quin was launched at 9.50....
Seawitch
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 6.38 p.m. on 19th July, 1966, the honorary secretary of the ladies' life-boat guild reported that a red flare had been fired from a fishing boat half a mile to seaward of the boathouse.
The...