LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Vessel (1)
St. Helier, Jersey.—20th November, 1937. The life-boat took a pilot out to a vessel lying off Rozel Harbour, as there was no other suitable boat available, and brought back the master to attend an inquest on his mate, who had been...
A Sailing Boat (1)
Swanage, Dorset.—3rd July, 1938. A small sailing boat had got into difficulties, but a motor cruiser took her in tow.—Rewards, £5 12s..
A Steamer (1)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth, and Howth, Co. Dublin.—2nd January. A steamer was in difficulties but made port with- out help.—Rewards, Clogher Head, £12 16s., Howth, £11 7s. Sd..
A Boat (1)
24th February.
Two men in a boat were seen to be in difficulties, but managed to get ashore when their boat grounded.—Rewards, £18 15s. Qd..
A Yacht (1)
Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of August, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a yacht was dismasted and in difficulties off Avon- wen beach. The South Caernarvon- shire Yacht...
A Sailing Boat (1)
Salcombe, Devon. At 11.50 on the morning of the 2nd of September, 1958, the coastguard at Bolt Head informed the honorary secretary that a sailing boat had capsized half a mile south- west of Steeple Cove look-out hut and that two people...
Ben Meidie (1)
Wick, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, Orkneys. At 11.26 on the night of the 7th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Kirkwall informed the honorary secre- tary at Longhope that the trawler Ben Meidie of North Shields was ashore on the Pentland...
A Yacht (1)
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 1.58 on the morning of the 9th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small yacht from Moville was overdue. After further enquiries had been made the life-boat Lady Scott (Civil...
A Rubber Mattress (1)
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a girl had drifted out to sea on a rubber mattress four and a half miles south of Berwick. At...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Dungeness, Kent. At 7.10 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Dymchurch. Ten minutes later the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a moderate...