LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cut Off By the Tide. Two Bronze Medals for Clovelly Life-Boatmen
ON the evening of the 30th of August, 1948, two young Americans were swimming and wading round Baggy Point in North Devon. One of them was the son of Mr. Negley Farson, the author, the other was a photographer on the staff of the American...
Category: Services
Barbara
Soon after midnight, on the 10-11th March, signals of distress were observed from the schooner Barbara, of Wick, an- | chored in the roadstead. As the wind was blowing a hurricane from N.N.E.
and the vessel was dragging...
Remedy
Dover, Kent.—At nine o'clock on the night of the 24th of September, 1955, the police reported that the motor yacht Remedy, which had a crew of two, was in distress between the South Goodwin lightvessel and the Goodwin Sands. At 9.35 the...
Yvonne Risager
BROKEN FUEL PIPE Dunbar, East Lothian. At 4.40 p.m.
on yth October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had broken down about four miles east-south-east of Barnsness...
Happy Returns
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.21 on the morning of the 2nd of June, 1951, the coastguard passed on the news that a Trinity House vessel had, through Newhaven Radio, reported the East- bourne fishing vessel Happy Returns disabled by an engine...
Lisa Ray
At 2.11 p.m. on 6th June, 1967, it was learned that the cabin cruiser Lisa Ray had radioed that she had lost her way in dense fog while crossing the Goodwins.
The life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32) was launched...
A Sailing Dinghy (5)
Runswick, Yorkshire. At 12.18 p.m.
on 3rd October, 1965, a sailing dinghy was seen to capsize off Kettleness Point and it was thought there might be children on board. There was a light south-south-westerly breeze with a...
Braunschweig
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 4 a.m. on 22nd January, 1966, the harbour master received a radio telephone call from the German trawler Braunschweig asking for medical assistance for a member of the crew who had been injured and was bleeding...
The S.S. High Wear
MARCH 6TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 8.20 A.M. the coastguard reported a message from the S.S. High Wear that she was coming in with her engine-room flooded, that she was making water, and that a pilot should be ready. A few...
Thrive
A t about noon on the 24th March a sudden squall sprang up in Fraserburgh Bay. This developed later into a N.W. gale with a heavy sea. Shortly after 1 P.M. the harbour-master tele- phoned that the Fraserburgh and Cairnbulg fishing fleets...