LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Patriot, of Wexford
AUGUST 9TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At nine in the evening a telephone message from the military lookout post at Greenore Point reported that the motor fishing boat Patriot, of Wexford, appeared to have broken down and to be flying...
A Small Vessel
NOVEMBER 17TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 8.15 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was making signals of distress off Blackwood Point, Brook. A fresh south-west gale was blowing, with heavy squalls and a heavy...
A Small War Department Motor Launch Cypress
NOVEMBER 6TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
At 4.56 in the afternoon the Hope Cove coastguard reported that a small War Department motor launch, with a crew of three, had broken down and was making distress signals east of Start Point...
A Small Boat (4)
JUNE 2ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. Early in the morning the owner of the Guildford Hotel, Sandwich, reported to the police that his son and another boy had put out in a small boat the previous night. They had not returned, and the boat could be...
H.M. Trawler Flotta
OCTOBER 29TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5.30 A.M. the coast-guard reported signals of distress, and a few minutes later said that a vessel was ashore one mile north of Rattray Head. At 6.35 A.M. the Peterhead motor...
Thomas M.
Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 7.23 A.M.
on the 18th February, 1938, a message was received from East Pier that a vessel was aground near Quern Buoy.
She was the motor vessel Thomas M., of London, bound with a...
Guidesman
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.40 in the morning, on the 1st of December, 1950, the pier signal station sent a message that the motor tanker Guides- man, of London, was ashore off Scar's Elbow Buoy, near Canvey Island. At 5.25 the...
Pilot Me and Royal Empire
On returning to harbour shortly after 4 P.M. on the 21st February the crew of the fishing boat Pilot Me reported that they had found the breaking seas at the harbour entrance very difficult and that the coble Royal Empire had yet to make...
Persevere
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.8 on the afternoon of the 19th of March, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the motor barge Persevere, of Rochester, which had a crew of two, had brokendown and sprung a leak and had been taken in tow by a motor...
Lodestar
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 8.45 a.m.
on 21st April, 1970, the coastguard reported that a yacht was stranded on a sandbank about 200 yards east of Wallet Spitway buoy. In poor visibility and worsening weather conditions the...