LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Golden Spray
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 5.50 p.m. on loth October, 1965, the coastguard reported that a message had been received from the Cromer coastguard that a vessel was in trouble two miles southwest of Lynn Well lightvessel. The lifeboat Charles...
Why Worry
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 12.11 on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Why Worry, with a crew of two, appeared to have broken down off Trimingham, four miles south-east of Cromer. At...
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Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 4.38 on the afternoon of the 21st May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over a cliff. Ten minutes later, when the life- boat Jeanie put to sea, with the boarding boat in...
Fishing Boats
Anstruther, Fife - At 12.30 p.m. on 27th February, 1967, it was seen that the local fishing fleet was standing off the harbour awaiting the tide to flood sufficiently in order to enter. There was a gale force southerly wind with a very heavy...
Sisters
DROGHKDA.—On the 10th January the No. 2 Life-boat, John Suiter Charley, of this station, was launched to the assistance of the barque Sisters, of Sunderland, which vessel being driven in on the lee-shore of Bettystown strand came in contact...
Gleaner, of Milford
On the 30th October, at 3 P.M., the schooner Gleaner, of Milford, •was "wrecked beneath Clay Castle, near the entrance of Youghal Harbour. It was blowing a heavy gale at S. The Life-boat William Beckett of Leeds was launched at 3.45,...
Two Pilot Boats
— Just before nightfall on 9th April two pilot boats had been seen pulling out to sea in a moderate S.W. gale with a rough sea and heavy rain. After dark the wind increased and anxiety was felt for their safety, so it was decided to launch...
Rousalka
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 25th of July, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a man had reported that a yacht was drifting three miles east-north-east of Filey Brigg Buoy. At 10.55 the life-boat The Isa & Penryn...
Julin
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.52 on the morning of the 9th of May, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the motor vessel Julin, of Hamburg, had gone ashore in fog on Beachy Head ledge. At 8.10 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched....
Jaymac
Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.7 on the morning of the 7th of June, 1951, the Lade coastguard reported the motor yacht Jaymac, of London, in need of help six miles south-west of Dunge- ness. At 9.45 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched...