LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Seaplane
At 9 A.M. on the 15th December the military authorities reported that signals of dis- tress had been observed in St. Andrews Bay. In response the Motor Life-boat Maria was launched. She proceeded to St. Andrews Bay, where she found an...
Elsie
At 1.5 A.M.
on the 26th September signals were observed from a vessel to the north- eastward of the station. They were duly reported to the Coxswain, who promptly summoned his crew. The Mark Lane was launched, and found a...
William Berry
At 8.45 A.M. on the 15th March, when the wind was blowing a whole gale from S.W., with a very heavy sea running, the schooner William Berry broke from her moorings and commenced to drift to the shore on the opposite side of the bay, which is...
Osprey
Rhyl, Flintshire. —At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 24th of April, 1949, the owner of the local fishing vessel Osprey, reported that she was aground in the surf half a mile north of the entrance to Foryd Harbour. It could be seen that she had...
Ais Giorgis
Humber, Yorkshire.—During a fog on the morning of the 3rd October the Spurn Point Royal Naval Shore Signal Station reported an unknown vessel ashore near Kilnsea beacon. She was the Greek steamer Ais Giorgis, of Piraeus, bound with a cargo...
Horace
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 21st of November, 1954, the Customs Water Guard Officer reported that the eight-feet dinghy Horace, of New Brighton, was drifting in the Rock Channel with three boys on board. At 11.42...
Tarka
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 5.28 on the afternoon of the 12th of February, 1955, the coxswain reported that he had seen a boat drifting off the Manacles and later stated that a steamer was with her.
At 5.50 the life-boat William...
Ocean Pride
Newbiggin, Northumberland.-At 11.30 on the morning of the 23rd of Novem- ber, 1955, a fisherman who had just come in from sea reported that the sea was heavy and becoming worse, with a gale blowing from the...
Jenny and Yacht Our Jim
Dover, Kent.—At 1.30 in the after- noon of the 8th of April, 1950, the life- boat mechanic saw a rowing boat in the outer harbour in need of help.
At 1.40 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, left her...
Una
Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. — Shortly after 10.30 P.M. on the 5th July the coastguard received a message from the Gunfleet lighthouse that the Barrow Deep light-vessel was firing signals of distress. The weather was fine, with a calm sea and...