LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Three False Alarms. A Whale, a Bather, and a Meteorological Balloon
ON the evening of the 2nd of Septem- ber, the coastguard at St. Anthony telephoned that he could see a small sailing yacht which appeared to have capsized and have a man clinging to it. There was a heavy sea running.
It was...
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Fishing Boats (1)
Early on the morning of the 2nd March. ; several local fishing boats and cobles put to sea. By 9 A.M. the sea was making fast and breaking at the pier ends ; and the river, running strongly out of the harbour, made the entrance dangerous. A...
Ferm
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire. — At 5.21 on the afternoon of the 25th of July, 1955, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the motor ship Ferm, of Grimstad, Norway, which was out- ward bound, had wirelessed that a member of her crew had...
The S.S. Spidola
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 8.10 in the morning of the 14th of February, 1948, the coastguard reported that a vessel had gone ashore in a thick fog to the south-east of the South Stack Light- house, and at 8.32 the motor life-boat A.E.D. was...
Ben Bheula
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 12.30 in the morning of the 16th of March, 1949, the Kilchoman coastguard reported a message from McArthur's Head Lightr house that a vessel was flashing S.O.S.
signals one mile from the...
An Aeroplane
Dfracombe, Devonshire. — At about 1.35 P.M. on the llth November, 1938, the coastguard reported that a passing steamer, going east, was flying a signal indicating aircraft in distress. A squally S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea...
Louise
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 4.38 P.M. on the 7th January, 1939, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a barge off Holland Sluice appeared to be in difficulties.
Soon afterwards they reported...
Elisabeth
DUTCH VESSEL TOWED THROUGH ROUGH SEA Weymoutb, Dorset.—At 6.10 in the morning of January 12th, 1947, a report was received from St. Albans Head, through the Wyke Regis coast- guard, that a vessel was burning distress ilares about six miles...
Beetle Drive
THE WRECKERS recently returned to the popular Devonshire holiday resort of Ilfracombe, but these particular plunderers were strictly landlubbers who had managed to smuggle their way into timbers within the local life-boat...
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A Dinghy
DIFFICULT RESCUE FROM ROCK THE Pwllheli life-boat and the Abersoch ILB, stationed on the Caernarvonshire coast, answered a call on 25th June, 1972, when two men in a motor boat were reported overdue.
The search started when...