LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Inshore Rescue Boat
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 3.25 p.m. on 29th April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the inshore rescue boat recently placed at the station appeared to be in difficulties off the West Princess buoy while out on...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Newbiggin, Northumberland.—On the evening of the 31st of May, 1954, some fishing cobles put off to go salmon fishing, but at 9.30 one of them came ashore and reported that the sea was rough and that the weather was worsening. Conditions were...
Glamis
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 9.15 on the night of the 17th of June, 1950, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Glamis, of Dundee, four miles to the northward, had wirelessed for a doctor. At 9.32, with the honorary secretary, Major E. Peter...
Eve
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — At 11.23 in the morning of the 14th of October, 1951, pilots reported that a yacht with a body in tow was off Shoreham, and needed help. At 11.28 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched in calm...
Edith
Arklow, Co. Wicklow. — At 6.50 on the night of the 19th of November, 1951, the motor mechanic reported flares north of the harbour and at seven o'clock the life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched with the second cox- swain in charge. The sea...
Pilot Me II
Whltby, Yorkshire.-—At noon on the 26th of January, 1952, the second coxswain reported that the local motor fishing vessel Pilot Me II had wire- lessed that she was making for the harbour. A strong northerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy...
Pedro
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 1.12 early on the morning of the 28th of June, 1957, the coastguard reported that a vessel was burning flares south of the harbour.
The life-boat Michael Stephens put out at 1.45 in a slight sea....
Weyward
Weymouth, Dorset - At 1.48 p.m. on llth March, 1970, the coastguard reported that a small boat was in difficulties in Ringstead bay, one mile off shore. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 2.1. There was a moderate...
A Motor Boat (1)
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 11.45 p.m. on 30th October, 1968, the coastguard reported that a small motor boat with one man on board was overdue from South Uist. The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 slipped her moorings at 12.25...
Progress
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At five o'clock in the morning on 21st December, 1969, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing vessel Progress, with two men aboard, had been drifting all night off the harbour. The life-boat Tynesider...