LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Penguin
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly— On the evening of the 15th August the secretary of the station was out fishing near Crehewethan, with his son and a friend, in the motor boat Penguin. The engine broke'down, and owing to the strong ebb...
A Small Boat
On the afternoon of the 13th January the coxswain of the motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was warned that a small boat, manned by three youths, had gone out of the harbour. A moderate N.W.
breeze was blowing, and a...
Primrose
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—Owing to sudden dense fog and heavy rain on the 30th January the Clogher Head fishing fleet, which was about eleven miles N.E. of Port Oriel, made for home.
All boats except the Primrose, with the...
Success (1)
Redcar, and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At about 9.45 A.M. on the 2nd January, 1939, the coastguard at Marske telephoned that a motor fishing vessel was in distress four miles north-east of Huntcliffe. She was the Success, of Whitby, with a crew...
An R.A.F. Aeroplane
Clovelly, Devonshire, and Padstow * No. 1, Cornwall.—19th October, 1939. A message was received that a R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea and the Clovelly life-boat was launched at 10.20 P.M. to search between Hartland Point and...
Lilian
FISHING BOAT TOWED IN New Brighton, Cheshire.—-At about 4.45 in the afternoon of January 13th, 1947, the Hoylake coastguard reported that a fishing boat had put out from Hoy- lake and had not returned. A boat, apparently in difficulties,...
None (7)
Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 9.25 on the night of the 30th of September, 1953, a woman told the coxswain that a bright light was flashing in the sea three miles north-east of Mallaig, and at 9.40 the life-boat Sir Arthur Rose put to sea....
Johanna Te Velde
Sheringham, Norfolk. — Just before nine o'clock on the night of the 31st of December, 1950, a local resident informed the life-boat honorary sec- retary that a ship was making morse signals three-quarters of a mile east- north-east of...
The Witch
FAMILY PARTY ADRIFT IN A GALE Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—On the morning of the 15th of November, 1947, a north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and at 10.30 the coastguard reported a vessel...
Lanho
Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 5th of November, 1948, red flares were seen to the south-south-east, and the motor life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched at 6.40 in a strong, squally...