LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Success (1)
Redcar, and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At about 9.45 A.M. on the 2nd January, 1939, the coastguard at Marske telephoned that a motor fishing vessel was in distress four miles north-east of Huntcliffe. She was the Success, of Whitby, with a crew...
Viking and Loch Maree
Minehead, Somerset. — During the evening of the 9th August, 1939, a message was received from the Hurlestone Point coastguard that the motor yacht Viking was on fire six miles north of Porlock Weir and that the motor yacht Loch Maree, of...
The S.S. Lintie
BOAT WITHOUT LIGHTS OR SIGNALS Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 10.30 on the night of the 25th of April, 1947, information was received from the owner of a fleet of sand-boats that he was anxious about the safety of one of his smaller boats, the...
Vierge Marie
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 7.40 A.M. on the llth January the police reported a wreck under Tregiffian cliffs. A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea, and the weather was thick. The motor life-boat W. and S.
was...
A Small Open Boat
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. — During the morning of the 17th September the coastguard reported that a small open boat under sail two miles south of Aldeburgh was making very heavy weather. A moderate to fresh squally south breeze was blowing, with a...
The S.S. Esther Maria
Falmouth, Cornwall. — Just before 6.30 A.M. on the morning of the 5th August, 1938, information was received from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore. The sea was smooth, with a light southerly wind, but there was a thick fog. The tide...
Two Meteor Aeroplanes (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk. — At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 20th of May, 1952, the Gorleston coastguard tele- phoned a report from the R.A.F.
station at Uxbridge that two Meteor aeroplanes had...
The S.S. Sirius
Humber, Yorkshire.—At. 12.10 on the afternoon of the 13th of February, 1953, while the life-boat City of Brad- ford II was on service to the S.S.
Monkton Combe, of Bristol, the Spurn Point coastguard reported that the S.S....
Vigilant
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 15th of March, 1953, the motor fishing boat Vigilant, which had been blown ashore from her moor- ings in a gale, was refloated and towed into the River Tees by two men in a small dinghy...
None (7)
Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 9.25 on the night of the 30th of September, 1953, a woman told the coxswain that a bright light was flashing in the sea three miles north-east of Mallaig, and at 9.40 the life-boat Sir Arthur Rose put to sea....