LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 10.30 A.M. on the 6th August, whilst the fishing fleet were returning from sea, in a strong northerly wind and rough sea, serious congestion took place in the harbour channel, and it was feared that serious damage might be caused to life...

About 5 A.M. on the 18th October four of the local fishing boats put to sea. Shortly afterwards the wind veered to the N.N.W. and increased to a strong gale with very heavy seas which made it dangerous to enter the harbour. One of the boats...

The local motor fishing boat Sirius, with two men aboard, which the life-boat had saved from destruction a few days earlier, got into difficulties again on the 2nd March. She was fishing about two miles north-east of Dunmore when her...

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...

Peel, Isle of Man.—At 5.10 P.M. on the 5th December, 1938, the coastguard reported flares six miles N.N.E.

of Peel. A strong and freshening S.W.

breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.

The...

Courdon, Kincardineshire.—At about 3.30 P.M., on the 19th January, 1939, a report was received from Johnshaven that the local fishing boats Isa Simpson and Sunbeam were at sea, and that owing to the bad weather they were making for Gourdon...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the morning of the 5th February the police reported that Ryde Hospital had received a message from Niton Radio Station that the liner Delambre, of Liverpool, bound from London to the River Plate, was at anchor...

Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 7.30 A.M.

on the 30th May, 1938, a north gale sprang up, bringing a rough sea.

Several of the local fishing cobles were at sea, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina...