LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naida
Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 11.2 P.M.
on the 17th July, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in distress a mile and a half S.E. of Tara look-out station. She was the motor yacht Naida, of Greenock, with two men...
A Small Boat
On the afternoon of the llth October the assistant motor mechanic reported to the coxswain that a man had put off in a small boat from the pilot boat to go ashore on Piel Island, but had been caught by a heavy squall, had lost control of...
A Small Boat (1)
Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the 15th July four visitors, two men and two women, put out in a small boat from Benllech.
A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The boat soon got out of control and was carried away...
Frank M
The motor life-boat Prudential put out at 7.22 A.M. on the 17th September, as the coastguard had reported that a vessel was drift- ing towards the harbour. A whole S.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The life-boat found the vessel...
A Converted Ship's Life-Boat
Early on the morning of the 28th September a converted ship's life-boat, with four men on board, went ashore on the training bank. A moderate S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. A pilot boat put off to her, but the men asked...
Richland,
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— At about 5 P.M. on the 5th December the steam tug Royal Britain, with the lighter Richland, of Newcastle, in tow, was seen making for harbour. A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The tow...
Betty
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 8.20 on the evening of the 19th of October, 1956, the Trevose Head coastguard tele- phoned that shouts for help had been heard off Trebetherick Point. At 8.55 the no. 2 life-boat Bassett Green was launched. There was a...
Mary (1)
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—On the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1957, the coxswain saw a small fishing boat drifting out to sea about three miles east of Rosslare harbour. At 3.5 the life-boat Douglas Hyde put out in a choppy sea. There...
A Rowing Boat
Newhaven, Sussex. — At half past eleven on the morning of the 6th of November, 1949, the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched for exer- cise. There was a choppy sea, with an easterly breeze blowing. As she was returning, she...
The Sailing Boat Berlin
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At one o'clock in the afternoon of the 20th of Novem- ber, 1949, the St. Anthony coastguard reported that a sailing boat was making for Portscatho. The weather was bad and she was in a dangerous position.
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