LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Miss Torbay
On the night of the 13th August the coast watcher at Babbacombe reported that a speed-boat was in difficulties, close to the shore, between Babbacombe and Anstey's Cove, Torquay. The east wind was very right, but a very strong easterly...
A Motor Dinghy From Wishbone
On the afternoon of the 20th July the motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, when off Sconce Point on her return to Yarmouth from exercise off Milford, saw a motor dinghy from the yacht Wishbone drift- ing rapidly towards Shingle...
Pride of Erin (1)
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 3.27 on the afternoon of the 31st of January, 1957, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned to say the police had been informed that flashing lights had been seen from a vessel in Machrihanish Bay. The life-boat...
A Rubber Dinghy.
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—At 11.19 on the morning of the 26th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that three people were drifting out to sea off Crindon Dene in a rubber dinghy.
The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil...
Polar Prince
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.49 on the morning of the 26th of January, 1958, the coastguard told the coxswain that the trawler Polar Prince had sprung a leak twenty-four miles north-east of Tynemouth. The life-boat Tynesider was...
Thebe
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 19th of April, 1958, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from a New Brighton stage- man that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties near the...
Sunwood
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. — At 2.35 in the afternoon, on the 17th of October, 1950, the coastguard reported that a motor yacht, apparently deserted, was drifting, about a mile from Manorbier Point. At 2.45 the life-boat John...
A Tragic Drowning
MR. WILLIAM HENRY JONES, the former coxswain of the New Brighton life-boat, was drowned on April 25th last, while out fishing with his son Thomas. Their boat went aground on the way to Rock Channel, off New Brighton, and Cox- swain Jones was...
Category: Obituaries
Pilot Me
TWICE IN TWO DAYS Whitby, Yorkshire.—, Shortly before mid-day on the 14th of November, 1947, the owner of the local fishing vessel Pilot Me reported that he had been told by wireless that her engine had failed. He had some new bolts being-...
H.M.S. Illustrious
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.35 on the night of the 17th of October, 1948, the Portland Naval Base telephoned that a liberty boat returning to H.M.S.
Illustrious, lying in Portland harbour, had sunk near the ship and that many...