LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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SEPTEMBER 2ND. - MARGATE, KENT.
During the afternoon the coastguard reported that a party of bathers off Nayland Rock had got into difficulties. A fresh easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. As it was dead low water...
Lavender
OCTOBER 7TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 5.35 in the morning the coastguard reported red flares at Goodwin Knoll. A moderate north-north-east breeze was blowing, but the sea was heavy. The motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 6.3 and found...
The Local Fishing Boat Lady Betty
OCTOBER 19TH.. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.
About one o’clock in the afternoon, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Lady Betty, with only one man on board, had broken down and was drifting out to sea towards the...
Gem
DECEMBER 11TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
A crew from Whitby had gone to Bridlington to fetch the motor fishing boat Gem. As the seas were heavy the life-boat coxswain kept a look-out for her. At 6.40 in the evening the...
Carlotta
MAY 5TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
Early in the afternoon the auxiliary yacht Carlotta left Glasson Dock, with a party of five aboard, for a pleasure trip to the Isle of Man. She got into difficulties and anchored, and was...
Trilby, of Benllech
AUGUST 5TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
At ten o’clock at night the resident of a bungalow on the cliffs near Benllech reported to the honorary secretary of the life-boat station that signals were being made by torch from a launch...
Six Small Sailing Boats
AUGUST 28TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. At nine in the morning a messenger came by car to the lifeboat station and reported that six small sailing boats had been washed away from Kilbrittain during a storm, and it was thought that a...
Fluminense, of London
NOVEMBER 10TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 9.3 in the morning the Sandgate coastguard reported a motor yacht in distress two and a half miles south-south-west of Dungeness Lighthouse. A fresh north-easterly breeze was blowing,...
Harbinger
DECEMBER 16TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
At daylight the life-boat coxswain saw a yacht at anchor about half a mile from Preston Sands, Paignton. She was in an exposed position, and an east-north-east breeze was blowing, with heavy...
The S.S. Zitella
FEBRUARY 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 9.40 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel ashore at Buchanness. A strong S.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy sea and poor visibility. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of...