LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
At 6 A.M. on the 23rd March the fishing-boats engaged in crab-fishing put to sea for the purpose of hauling up their crab pots. The wind at the time was blowing strongly from the E.N.E.; later in the morning it increased. About 9.30 A.M. the...
Ten Crews Rescued In Seven Hours
ON the 29th July the St. Ives Life-boat performed a series of arduous services, going out five times to the rescue of no fewer than ten vessels, and saving forty men, in the course of seven hours.
On the 28th July a strong...
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Lightfoot, of Newcastle
On the night of the 4th June the steamer Lightfoot, of Newcastle, bound in bal- last from Marburg, Germany, to the Tyne, ran aground about one hundred yards north of the coastguard station at Seaton Sluice in very thick weather.
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A Motor Pinnace belonging to Yacht Westward
Soutbend-on-Sea, Essex. — On the night of the 22nd May a message was received from the watchman at the pierhead that a motor pinnace, belonging to the schooner yacht Westward, which was anchored off the pier, was drifting rapidly to the west...
Vitesse
New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 1.55 early on the morning of the 18th of October, 1953, the Formby coastguard reported that the motor vessel Vitesse, of Delfzijl, Netherlands, had gone aground on the revetment near C.25 Black Buoy in the River...
Thrifty
Dover, Kent.-—At 3.15 in the morning of the 23rd of November, 1949, Lloyd's signal station reported a vessel stranded on the blockships at the western en- trance to the harbour. At 3.30 the life-boat Southern Africa left her moor- ings...
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TWO PEOPLE CUT OFF BY TIDE Dover, Kent. At 5.42 on the evening of the 15th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that two people were cut off by the tide between Dover and St. Margaret's Bay. The life-boat Southern...
Little Old Lady
Hastings, Sussex. At 5.52 on the evening of the 11th of September, 1960, the coastguard told the coxswain that a fishing boat, Little Old Lady, was broken down off the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill. The life-boat M.T.C. was launched at 6.4 in...
May Blossom
Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 1.7 on the afternoon of 25th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the local lobster fishing boat May Blossom had made several un- successful attempts to approach the bar against the...
Valentia
Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 27th August, 1961, one of the yachts competing in a regatta capsized. The two people on board, a man and a woman, clung to the sub- merged boat. A near gale was blowing from the south-west...