LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dorothy and Sun Beam
The local fishing cobles put to sea on the morning of the 2nd November, but bad weather got up and by 7.15 A.M. all of them, except the Dorotkyand the Sunbeam, had returned.
At 9.30 A.M. a strong N.W. gale was blowing, with...
None (3)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 5.50 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1952, the St. John Ambulance Brigade rang up to say that their motor boat Flying Christine was going to the help of two people marooned on a rock in Moulin Huet Bay and...
Edna
Moelfre, Anglesey. — About eleven o'clock on the morning of the 25th of May, 1953, a message was received from Benllech that a local rowing boat with a man and five children on board was in difficulties off Red Wharf Bay and was being...
Davaar
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 8.10 on the evening of the 22nd of July, 1953, the life-boat tractor driver reported that the local motor cruiser Davaar was in distress a hundred yards east of East Pier. At 8.20 the life-boat James and Ruby...
None (3)
Galway Bay.—At 9.45 on the morn- ing of the 23rd of October, 1953, the local doctor asked if the life-boat would take a seventy-four-year-old man, who was seriously ill, to the main- land, as no other boat was available.
At...
Arlette
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— At 9.35 in the night of the 23rd of December, 1949, a wireless message was picked up at St. Abbs from the steam trawler Arlette, of Grimsby. She was making for Berwick to land a man with a poisoned arm....
Jane and Maid of Erin
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 11.45 on the night of the 16th of April, 1950, the county police reported a message received from a returning fishing boat, that flares had been seen in Lune Deep about four miles west of Wyre Light.
John Wesley
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 1.31 on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1955, the Seahouses coast- guard telephoned that the local fishing boat John Wesley, which had a crew of three, had broken down six miles south-south-east of...
A Ship's Boat
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—On the 1st of August, 1955, the life-boat William Gammon—Manchester and District XXX was launched to stand by during a local reg-atta, but at 7.50 in the evening the coastguard reported that four men in a...
Boston Valiant
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 5.45 on the afternoon of the 2nd of October, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the trawler Boston Valiant, outward bound from Fleetwood to the fishing grounds,had asked for a doctor to meet her in Ramsey Bay as the...