LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Westward
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.24 on the after- noon of the 29th of September, 1957, the east pier watchman reported that a yacht was aground on Brake Sands and was signalling for help. At 1.35 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a slight...
Moshulu
St. Mary's Isles of Scilly - At 6.40 p.m. on 3ist July, 1966, it was reported that a yacht near Bishop rock had a split sail. At 6.58 the life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched. The sea was rough and it was one hour after high water...
Stormdrift II
Montrose, Angus - At 6.50 a.m. on 27th July, 1966, the m.f.v. Stormdrift II of Montrose was reported immobilized with fouled propellers five miles southeast of Scurdyness. The life-boat TheGood Hope was launched at 7.19 in a light westerly...
A Dinghy
Hartlepool, Co. Durham - At 12.50 a.m. on 8th September, 1966, a small dinghy, with one man aboard, was reported overdue from a fishing trip. At I o'clock the life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) left her moorings in a...
Sorel, of Denmark
Lerwick, Shetland - At 9.46 p.m on 9th March, 1967, a fishing vessel was reported nearly ashore in the south harbour.
At 10.10 the life-boat Claude Cecil Staniforth proceeded in a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The C.R.E...
Kantara
Weymouth, Dorset - At 3.5 a.m. on 6th September, 1968, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen in Bowleaze cove. Twenty minutes later the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke was launched. It was low water. She came up with the cabin...
Empress
Workington, Cumberland - At midnight on 2nd December, 1968, the coxswain reported that a fishing boat was overdue. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX slipped her moorings at 12.20 in a moderate easterly wind with a smooth sea. The...
Star of Hope, Ocean Wonder and Breadwinner
Runswick, Yorkshire - At 1.40 p.m.
on 19th April, 1967, three Staithes fishing cobles were reported at sea and there was a heavy inshore swell on the bar at Staithes harbour. The life-boat The Elliott Gill was launched at 1...
Hilda, Reliance and Courage
JAN. 2ND. - SCARBOROUGII, YORKSHIRE.
Some of the local motor fishing boats were caught at sea by bad weather. A N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.
The Eagle came in and reported that the boats...
The S.S. Mercator
DEC. 1ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A ship’s boat had landed at Boddam, with twelve men on board, who reported that, their ship, the S.S. Mercator, of Helsinki, had been sunk by enemy action and that another of the ship‘s...