LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Roma
Selsey, Sussex.—At 1.30 P.M. on the 9th April the coastguard reported that a motor boat appeared to have broken down two miles S.E. of the coastguard look-out and was drifting west. She was not making signals of distress. At 5.47 P.M. she...
The Sunstar
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the evening of the 9th August the coastguard reported that St. Nicholas light-vessel was firing distress signals for a small yacht ashore in a dangerous position on Scroby Sands. A...
Life-Saving By the Coastguard 1936
DURING 1936 the coastguard took action in the case of 806 vessels or aircraft reported to be in distress, in difficulties, or overdue off the coast of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The rocket life-saving apparatus com...
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Dusty Miller
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 1.53 P.M.
on the 23rd November, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel was showing signals of distress about two and a half miles E.S.E. of Skegness Pier. A whole S.W. gale was blowing, with...
The S.S. Dunleith
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—-At 7.15 A.M. on the 25th November, 1938, the life-boat assistant motor mechanic saw a vessel aground on Newcombe Sands. There was a heavy swell on the sands, and the sea was moderate, with a freshening S.S.E. wind. The...
Jellicoe Rose
Plymouth, Devon.—At 1.18 A.M. on the 26th November, 1938, a message was received from the King's Harbour Master that it had been reported to him that a vessel was sounding her siren and was apparently in distress inshore. A whole S.W....
Kaapfalga
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
•—At 2.50 A.M. on the 13th December, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel about two miles E. by N. from Britannia Pier was thought to be ashore. A light, and increasing, S.E.<...
A German Aircraft
Whitby No 1, and Runswick, York- shire.—18th October, 1939. The coastguard reported a vessel firing signals six miles north of Whitby. A moderate N.E. wind was blowing with a choppy sea. At 7.45 P.M. the motor life-boat was launched. The...
A German Aircraft (1)
Whitby No 1, and Runswick, York- shire.—18th October, 1939. The coastguard reported a vessel firing signals six miles north of Whitby. A moderate N.E. wind was blowing with a choppy sea. At 7.45 P.M. the motor life-boat was launched. The...
L'Entente Cordiale
FRENCH FISHING VESSEL IN ST. IVES BAY St. Ives, Cornwall.—For several days before the 2nd of May, 1947, the French motor fishing vessel L'Entente Cordiale, of Lorient, had been anchored in St.
Ives Bay, and had been a...