LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Coble Hilda
Scarborough, and Filey, Yorkshire.—At 6.10 in the evening of the 17th of January, 1949, the Scarborough coast- guard reported to the life-boat station that anxiety was felt for the safety of the local motor fishing coble Hilda which had left...
An Aeroplane
Barmouth, Merionethshire. •—• About half-past ten in the morning of the 29th.
of July, 1949, information was received from the R.A.F. at Valley, Anglesey, and from the Fishguard coastguard that an aeroplane had come down in...
Cumbria
EXHAUSTED MEN RESCUED FROM PILOT BOAT Kirkcudbright. At 10.15 on the morning of the 21st June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a pilot boat returning to Workington from Girvan after an overhaul was long overdue and...
Come Away
YACHT MISSING FOR THREE DAYS Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 12.5 on the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to discuss the possibility of searching for the yacht...
Torbay Belle
LIFE-BOAT SEARCHES FOR CRABBER IN GALE Torbay, Devon. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the owner of the crab boat Torbay Belle, of Paignton, reported that he felt anxious for the safety of his boat and her crew of three...
Bostonian VII
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 12th of August, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a red flare had been seen four and a half miles south-east-by-east of Shoreham Harbour. At 9.30 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and-Phyllis...
Saint Kentigern
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 7.10 on the morning of the 16th of January, 1955, the Ramsey coastguard reported that the motor vessel Saint Kentigern, of Glasgow, had sent a distress message.
He later gave her position as five...
Neptunia
Torbay, Devon.—At 11.20 on the night of the 16th of February, 1955, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a woman had reported that her husband had gone to Dartmouth with a friend to fetch the 24-feet motor boat Nep- tunia to Torquay. They...
St. Enoch
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 1.14 on the afternoon of the 24th of November, 1955, the Orlock coastguard rang up to say that the skipper of the 360-ton coaster St. Enoch, of Glasgow, which had run ashore at Muck Island on the 21st, had asked if...
The Motorship Eminent
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 7.33 on the morning of the 16th of March, 1956, the Polruan coastguard rang up to say that the motorship Eminent, of Am- sterdam, had wirelessed that she had broken down about one mile south- east of Fowey and...