LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Eight-feet Flatbottomed Punt
MARCH 2ND. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 1.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported information received from Lancing that a small boat had been seen about three miles to the south-south-west.
The motor life-boat Rosa...
La Nievre, of Boulogne
AUGUST 19TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 10.5 in the morning the coastguard reported that a fishing vessel appeared to be out of control two miles south-east by east of the South Goodwin Light-vessel. A moderate south-south-west breeze was blowing,...
Fauvette, of London
FEBRUARY 3RD. - COVERACK, CORNWALL. At 6.5 in the morning a man reported a steamer in distress near Lowland Point, and the motor life-boat The Three Sisters was launched at 6.20. A strong westsouth- westerly wind was blowing,...
Miss Ann, of Paignton
JULY 18TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.7 at night the Brixham coastguard reported that the Torquay police had received a 999 telephone call which said that a whistle had been heard from a boat apparently in distress half a mile east of Roundham...
Anglo-Saxon
BROADSTAIRS.—The coastguard on duty reported a vessel, burning flares, off the North Foreland at 3.45 A.M. on the 28th March. The Life-boat Frances Forbes Barton was launched at 4 o'clock, and found the barge Anglo-Saxon about two miles...
A Raft (1)
OCTOBER 25TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
At 5 P.M. the Kerryhead look-out reported that a raft was floating in Tralee Bay, about two miles south of the head, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford I, on temporary duty at the...
The S.S. Pink Rose
Nov. 2ND. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
At 4.15 A.M. the motor life-boat At 4 A.M. the St. Anthony coastguard reported that a vessel was in distress about four miles S.S.E. of the life-boat station. A southeasterly gale was...
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OCTOBER 30TH. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
At about 11.5 A.M. the resident naval officer at Watchet reported an object at sea two miles to the N.E. of Minehead. It was thought that it might be a rubber dinghy as an aeroplane had...
The S.S. Trebartha and the S.S. Oberan
NOVEMBER 11TH. - ABERDEEN. At about 6.20 P.M. the Gregness coastguard reported that red flares, presumably from a steamer on fire, had been seen S.E. by S. of Findon, in which area bombs had been dropped by German aeroplanes. A strong S.S.E....
Stephen Harding, of Caldy Island
FEBRUARY 23RD. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
While the motor boat Stephen Harding, of Caldy Island, was crossing to the mainland, she had trouble with her propeller shaft and had to anchor about a mile and a half south-west of...