LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Strathavon, of Scarborough
Aberdeen.—Early on the morning of the 13th August the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at or near Portlethen. A gentle southerlybreeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and thick fog. The reserve motor life-boat J. & W., which...
Minnie
New Brighton, Cheshire.—On the evening of the 10th June, 1938, news was received through the Mersey Dock Board that a vessel was ashore on the Burbo Bank. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat City of Bradford I,...
Jenny and Yacht Our Jim
Dover, Kent.—At 1.30 in the after- noon of the 8th of April, 1950, the life- boat mechanic saw a rowing boat in the outer harbour in need of help.
At 1.40 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, left her...
Bev
Ramsgale, Kent. — At 6.39 in the evening, on the 14th of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a small boat was making heavy weather half a mile off Dumpton Gap. At 6.45 the life- boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was...
A Boat
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of September, 1950, two men from a Shipbreaking Company were inspecting a wreck in Campbeltowii Loch. While they were aboard, a sudden gale sprang up from the south, with torrential...
Vaderland
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At 8.0 on the night of the 10th of January, 1951, a ship was seen to enter Dun- garvan Harbour, ivn in on the wrong side of the sand bar and burn flares.
At 8.40 the life-boat Agnes Cross, on...
Maid of Honour
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.28 on the night of the 30th of April, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a local resident had reported a wireless message from the motor fishing vessel Maid of Honour, of Lerwick. She had broken down off Brethren...
Girl Pat
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 11.15 on the night of the 22nd of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor boat Girl Pat was overdue on passage from Newport, Pembrokeshire, to Tresaeth near Aber- porth. The...
Conway
Margate, Kent.—On the afternoon of the 10th of February, 1957, the life- boat Cunard was on passage from Brightlingsea to Margate to carry out temporary duty. At the entrance to the River Colne the coxswain saw a man standing up in a motor...
A Canoe
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—While the life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), on temporary duty at the station, was on show for the local life-boat day, on the 2nd of August, 1957, the coxswain was told that a canoe had capsized a mile and a...