LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Premier
— On the night of the 5th January, it was re- ported to the coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat Sarah Jane Turner that a fishing yawl with five men on board was in the Bay and had made flares for assistance. As the sea was very heavy,...
December (1)
HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. At about 3 in the afternoon of the 19th of September, 1943, the 18-ton motor fishing boat Alexandra, with a crew of five, was fishing some 10 miles east-north-east of Heugh Light in Hartlepool Bay, when the men saw an...
Category: Services
Spaarndam
Southend-on-Sea a message had been received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the S.S.
Spaarndam urgently needed help, and at NOV. 27TH. - MARGATE, KENT, AND 9.40 A.M. the motor life-boat Greater London SOUTHEND - ON - SEA....
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FLOATS MISTAKEN FOR MEN Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford.—At 9.40 in the morning of the 21st of October, 1947, information was received that what appeared to be a partly sub- merged boat with three men clinging to it had been seen in...
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 4.7 in the after- noon, on the 28th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a report received from a holiday camp at Towyn that three men and boys in a rubber dinghy needed help off the camp. At 4.30 the life-boat...
Sea Gipsy
Dover, Kent.— At 11.9 on the morn- ing of the 27th of August, 1950, the Sandgate coastguard said that a vessel at sea had informed him, through Niton Radio, that the motor launch Sea Gipsy, bound for Dover from Calais, was in difficulties...
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AN IRISH LIFE-BOAT AS AMBULANCE Galway Bay.—On the 12th of March, 1947, the Kilronan doctor asked that the life-boat should take him to a man who was very ill at Inisheer. A south-easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and no ordinary...
The Ex-Motor Fishing Vessel Spectre and Nola
RED FLARES At 10.52 a.m. on loth August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a 45-foot boat towing a yacht had fired three or four red flares 250 yards off Elma Beach.
The life-boat Canadian Pacific launched at ii a.m. in a...
Trapu
Walmer, Kent.—At 2.11 on the after- noon of the 15th of July, 1955, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a steamer had reported that the tug Trapu, of Dunkirk, had gone aground on the Goodwin Sands about half a mile south-by-east of the West...
Faith Star, Pilot Me and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Before daybreak on the 24th of November, 1955, the fishing boats Faith Star, Pilot Me and Success put to sea in worsening weather.
The Faith Star returned to harbourand at noon the no. 2 harbour pulling...