LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Glenway
Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.10 on the night of the 6th of May, 1951, a resident of Newport Hemsby telephoned that a ship was ashore off Newport Hemsby.
So at 10.30 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched in a choppy sea, with a...
M.F.V. Mary
MFV broken down HM COASTGUARD reported to the deputy launching authority of Southend-on-Sea lifeboat station at 1706 on Sunday May 2, 1982, that MFV Mary had broken down and had asked for immediate help; she was about 15 miles east of the...
Darnet
On the evening of the llth July the ketch Darnet, of Maldon, was anchored between the Knocksand Bank and the Main when she parted from her anchor and drifted on to the sand. Later she floated off the sand, but went on to the Main near...
Anjonika
Broken steering ON SATURDAY April 28, at 0700, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Port St Mary lifeboat station that a fishing vessel, Anjonika, was disabled 13 miles to the south east. She had been on passage, in ballast, from...
Morandi
Early on the morning of the 23rd June four young men left Lynmouth for Mumbles in the auxiliary yacht Morandi, of Mumbles.
Soon after she put out the engine broke down. With the help of her sails she got as far as...
Willie Ridley, of Plymouth
On the 29th January the brig Willie Ridley, of Plymouth, was seen to drag her anchor and drive a considerable distance towards the shore, until she was within a cable's length of the reef of rocks off the Western Beach, the wind blowing...
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Lerwick, Shetland*.—While the life-boat was taking the food and mails to Gmtness on the 1st of March, 1947, a doctor, whom she had taken to Quarff on the 28th of February, but who had been unable to land, telephoned that the patient there...
Providence
Margate, Kent.—During the evening of the 23rd of July, 1948, the sister of the skipper of the local fishing vessel Providence reported that the Providence had gone out fishing early that morning and was long overdue. The coast- guard was...
Vasilefs Georgios and Kildonan
At 1.30 A.M. on the 10th February, during a moderate S.S.W. gale the Coastguard reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat John Wesley, that rockets had been observed in Barry Roads.
The Life-boat was launched and found the...