LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Igonda
Plymouth, South Devon.—At 7.52 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the Rame Head coastguard reported that a yacht was showing distress sig- nals near Penlee Point. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out at 8.15. There was...
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Relief Fleet - Atlantic 21 Ernest Armstrong
Lady Payne (left), founder member of the Harrogate ladies guild and donor of the new Atlantic 21 at the ceremony in which she named the lifeboat after her late father.
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John Wesley
North Sunderland, Northumberland.—• The weather became very bad about mid-day on the 31st of January, 1948, while the motor fishing boat John Wesley was at the Fame Islands, and the motor life-boat W.R.A. was launched at 1.55 in the...
Grania
Dungeness, Kent. — At 9.30 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1953, the life-boat signalman reported that a fishing boat had taken in tow a dis- masted yacht, the Grania, of Ports- mouth, and needed the help of the life-boat. The weather...
Messina
Cromarty.—On the afternoon of the 23rd December the local fishing boat Messina, with three men on board, was seen to be in a dangerous position off South Suter Point. She was trying to get back after lobster fishing, but could make no...
Sisters, of Whitby
On the night of the 26th February, the brig Sisters, of Whitby, laden with coals, was driven on shore on the South Barber Sand, off Caistor. Her signals of distress being seen from the shore, the Caistor boatmen proceeded to launch the...
Nelson
DECEMBER 5TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 8.10 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard at Warden Point that a vessel two miles to the north-east was burning flares. A westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At 8.25 A.M. the...
Caldergate
Ramsgate, Kent. — At C.25 in the evening of the 23rd of April, 1952, the shore attendant on the East Pier reported a ship aground near the Quern Buoy on the Brake Sands, and at 6.39 the life-boat Prudential left her moorings in a smooth sea....