LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Almondine
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 3.5 A.M.
on the 13th December, 1937, the watchman at the life-boat station reported that a vessel had run aground on the Trinity Sands. She appeared to be in no immediate danger, and the tide was...
Young Mun
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — The motor life-boat Henry Frederick Swan was launched at 8.20 A.M. on the llth August, 1938, to go to the help of a vessel reported by the coastguard to be ashore at Souter Point. There was a dense fog. A...
Acquire, of Inverness
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—On the morning of the 30th January the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was making for the harbour, and that as there was a heavy swell running at the harbour mouth, and the boat was a stranger, it would be...
A Sailing Dinghy
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 3.55 in the afternoon of the 4th of September, 1949, some holiday visitors reported that a boat with a man and a small girl on board was on the rocks at the foot of Creadon cliffs. At 4.10 the life-boat...
A Raft
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 5.55 on the evening of the 4th of August, 1953, the Civic Guard reported that three boys were adrift on a raft off Arklow beach, and that a man had swum to them, but had returned to the shore for help. At 6.7 the life...
A Salmon Coble
Aberdeen. At 11.25 a-rn. on lyth February, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a salmon coble appeared to be in difficulties off Aliens. There was a moderate breeze from the north by east with a rough, confused sea. The...
Quinquereme
ANCHOR TROUBLE Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 12.50 p.m.
on 3rd May, 1964, the yacht Quinquereme, which had a crew of four, ran aground on the Layan sands. She refloated on the rising tide, but appeared to be in need of help, so...
Svenska
Margate, Kent.—At 12.42 on the after- noon of the 24th of July, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht had run ashore on the Hook Sands.
At 12.50 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI was...
Mary Ellen
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.39 on the night of the 27th of May, 1950, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the Sunk Lightvesset had reported what it thought to be a flare about two miles south-south-east of the...
Jupiter
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1950, the Wallasey Police reported that two people on a yacht at the foot of the sea wall were calling for help. At 4.45 the No. 2 life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson put...