LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Star of Hope, Freda and Minnie
On the morning of the 1st May the local motor fishing cobles put out to haul crab pots. A moderate N. wind was blowing, with a considerable ground swell, and at 10.30 A.M. with the tide ebbing the sea broke heavily across the bay, making the...
The Motor Fishing Coble Maggie
— Several motor fishing boats and cobles put out early on the 2nd November, but were caught in a strong N.N.W. gale, with a very heavy sea. All except the motor fishing coble Our Maggie returned to harbour, and the motor life-boat Herbert...
A Steamer (2)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—14th December. A steamer had been in collision with the Newarp light-vessel, but she did not need help.
In response to flares the life-boat then went to Horsey Gap,...
The S.S. Baron Elcho
Workington, Cumberland.—On the morning of the 12th of November, 1952, the S.S. Baron Elcho, of Ardros- san, wirelessed that she was short of provisions. At 10.30 the life-boat N.T. was launched in a calm sea with a light easterly...
None (1)
Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At 3.5 on the afternoon of the 21st of Feb- ruary, 1954, the coastguard reported that a man was in the sea in French- man Bay, about one and three-quarter miles south of the Tyne. At 4.14 the life-boat Tynesider...
None
Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—On the night of the 9th of December, 1949, a woman was taken very ill. A north-westerly gale was blowing with a very rough sea.
As she needed hospital treatment with- out delay and there was no other...
St. Joseph (1)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 2.30 in the afternoon, on the 16th of April, 1950, the harbourmaster reported that the motor yacht St. Joseph, of Dro- gheda, with a crew of two, had broken down about two miles north of Port Oriel and was...
Bervor
Troon, Ayrshire.-—At 7.50 in the evening, on the 25th of September, 1950, a message was received from Irvine that a yacht had broken down off Irvine harbour and could not get in. So, at 8.15, the life-boat Sir David Richmond, of Glasgozv,...
Ebor Jewel
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.45 in the afternoon of the 17th of December, 1947, the Port War Signal Station telephoned that a vessel, three miles south of Spurn Point, was making distress signals, and the motor life-boat City of...
The Queen's Fort
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.15 in the afternoon of the 7th of May, 1948, the Admiralty Salvage Officer tele- phoned that a man on the Queen's Fort, in the river Mersey, had been seriously injured. He asked for the life-boat and a...