LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sapphire, of Glasgow (1)
Newhaven, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 2nd December, 1937, the motor vessel Sapphire, of Glasgow, bound for Ghent, had trouble with her engine when some miles off the coast between Newhaven and Shoreham. The...
Heather (1)
Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— 19th January, 1938. At 2.35 P.M. the motor fishing boat Heather, of Filey, was reported overdue, and as it was not known in which direction she might be, the honorary secretary sent out twelve men in three...
Veryan
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—In the afternoon of the 23rd September, 1938. the coastguard reported that the St. Nicholas Light-vessel was firing and flying signals calling for the lifeboat's help. A light S.S...
Lord Harewood
At 11 P.M.
on the 1st April the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had stranded on the Inner Binks. A N.W. to W. wind was blowing, with a rough ground sea.
The motor life-boat City of Bradford II...
Fishing Cobles (3)
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— On the morning of the 20th February it was reported that practically the whole of the local fishing fleet was out, and that the sea was making very fast and was breaking across the harbour entrance. The...
The Imperial Airways Aeroplane Boadicea
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sussex.
—On the evening of the 25th September it was reported by the coastguard that the Imperial Airways aeroplane Boadicea, bound from Croydon to Paris, was missing. She had last been seen...
Warrior
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 12.50 P.M.
on the 2nd November Wick coastguard reported that they had received a wireless message from the master of the tug Warrior, of Glasgow—which was towing the ferry steamer Snowdrop, of...
A Dinghy
LONG SEARCH IN A FOG Margate, Kent.—At 9.32 on the night of the 12th of October, 1947, the coast- guard reported that a boy who had gone fishing in a dinghy off the Ness at 8 o'clock that morning, had not been seen since. The motor...
A Lancaster Bomber
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 12.20 in the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a Lancaster bomber, which had a crew of eight, was in distress forty-six miles south-east of Kirkabister Lighthouse. At 3.19 the...
The S.S. Baron Elibank
Dover, Kent.—-At 9.35 in the morning of the 21st of August, 1948, the Sand- gate coastguard reported information from the s.s. Baron Elibank that two men had been seen in a rowing boat eight miles east by south of Dover, and the motor...