LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Apollo
The steam trawler Apollo of Sandefjord, Norway, was reported ashore on the Middle Barber Sands during thick weather on the 21st January. The No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was launched to her assistance and found the vessel riding with her...
Primula
FISHING BOAT OVERDUE Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 12.48 in the afternoon of the 21st of June, 1947, the Wick coastguard reported that the motor fishing vessel Primula, of Wiek, last seen on the night of the 18th off Sandside Head, had been...
Bonnie Lass and Good Design
IN THICK FOG North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At noon on the 16th of July, 1947, with a very thick fog, the Seahouses coast- guard reported that he could hear men shouting, a klaxon sounding and a bell ringing, about a...
Capella
SKIPPER'S BROKEN ARM Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 3.45 on the morning of the 14th of August, 1947, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been seen about two miles east- north-east of Queen's Pier, and the motor life-boat Lady...
Firefly II
SPEEDBOAT BROKEN DOWN IN HEAVY SWELL Newhaven, Sussex.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 14th of September, 1947, the coastguard reported that a small boat appeared to be in difficulties off Saltdean and that persons aboard were waving. The...
Arosita
YACHT TOWED IN Dover, Kent.—At 2.49 in the afternoon of the 28th of September, 1947, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a yacht was making distress signals one mile south of Folkestone. The motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot was launched at...
Guernsey Coast
MOTOR VESSEL REFLOATED Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 7.20 in the morning of the 27th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Guernsey Coast, of London, was ashore five miles north-east of North Foreland with her steering...
A Lobster Fishing Boat
LOBSTER BOAT DRIFTING IN A GALE Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—During the morning of the 20th of November, 1947, the relatives of two local men who had put out in a lobster fishing boat, reported that they were overdue and as a moderate south...
Wendy
Hastings, Sussex.—At 12.28 in the afternoon of the 9th of May, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard reported that a yacht had capsized three miles off Glynde Gap, and the motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at 12.43, in a moderate...
Mavoureen and Random Harvest
Troon, Ayrshire. —At 11.50 on the night of the 6th of January, 1949, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the Ayr coastguard had reported two fishing boats aground to the south of Ayr, and the life-boat Sir David Rich- mond of Glasgow...