LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Wicklow Head, of Belfast
FEBRUARY 4TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At six in the evening the harbour master reported to the life-boat station a wireless message from the S.S. Wicklow Head, of Belfast, that she was making for Torbay to land a badly injured man. A local shipping...
Two Rubber Dinghies
MAY 23RD. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 5.38 in the evening the coastguard reported that two rubber dinghies, with five people on board, which had put out from Jaywick, were drifting helplessly three miles to the...
Pactolus
JULY 27TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. On the night of the 26th of July the yacht Pactolus disappeared from her anchorage. A watch was kept for her. At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 27th, the signal station at The Needles reported that, a...
Gem, of Crail
AUGUST 28TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
At 2.30 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a fishing boat, off Fifeness, making heavy weather. A south-easterly gale was blowing, the sea was very rough, and wind and sea were...
Pop
AUGUST 28TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 4.38 in the afternoon the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a pilot at Sea View had reported a boat being blown off shore in the direction of Horse Sand Fort.
A south-west gale...
A Small Motor Boat (2)
SEPTEMBER 24TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
At 12.25 in the morning the Portrush coastguard telephoned that the Ballycastle coastguard had reported a small boat in difficulties between Ballycastle and Fair...
The Sailing Barge Monarch
OCTOBER 14TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
About four in the afternoon the coastguard reported that H.M.S. Albatross was towing the sailing barge Monarch and had asked that the life-boat should go out, take over, and tow her into...
Three Fishing Drifters and The Scottish Drifter Coreopsis
NOVEMBER 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 11.17 in the morning the Gorleston coastguard reported a fishing drifter ashore a quarter of a mile south of the look-out. A light southsouth- east breeze was blowing and the sea was...
The S.S. Irma, of Sweden
DECEMBER 8TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL,.
At eleven in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel in distress off The Manacles. A strong north-easterly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat Crawford and...
Climbing Crew
Two 12-year-old boys were out exploring the north Devon coastline when they got cut off by the tide 10m up a cliff.
Several passers-by reported the boys’ predicament to the Coastguard, which requested the launch of...
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