LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Herring Boats
On the 25th June the services of the Thomas Bewick were again called into requisition. Four of the herring boats belonging to the port were waiting for the tide to rise sufficiently for them to get into harbour, but in the prevailing...
Esmeralda
— At about 8.30 AM. on the 7th July the Coxswain of the Life-boat observed signals of distress flying from a ketch on the east side of Fishguard Bay, near the-Needles Rock. There was a fresh N.N.W. breeze and heavy ground sea at the time....
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WORTHING.—The Life-boat at this j station has recently been replaced by a new and rather larger self-righting boat of the latest type, 35 feet long, 8i feet : wide, and rowing 10 oars double banked ; she has one drop keel and two water...
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Two Pedalo Pleasure Floats
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.55 on the after-noon of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that two Pedalo pleasure floats, each with two people in them, were drifting south- wards. At 2.7 the life-boat E.M.E.D., on temporary duty at...
Gower Pride (1)
Saviours at the sand When faced with 3m swells, notorious sandbanks and a drifting, rolling fishing vessel, it cannot be easy to stay calm. But the composure and courage of a helmsman and her crew in just such conditions saved two lives -...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The new Life-boat Queen Victoria, sent by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to Bembridge, and named after Her Majesty THE QUEEN by H.E.H. the Duchess of EDINBURGH, on the 25th of July last, is a beautiful...
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H.M. Tug Fairplay II
MARCH 2ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 11 A.M. it was reported that H.M. Tug Fairplay II had stranded on the West Salt Scar Rock, near Redcar. At 11.45 A.M. the motor life-boat Louisa Polden was launched.
The...
Le Cap
St. Helier, Jersey.—At 1.25 On the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1951, the harbour master reported that the motor vessel Le Cap, of Carteret, which had left St. Helier for Gorey with a crew of three, had wirelessed a distress...
Runswick Bay
The Humber, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 18th August a trawler was seen to be aground on the Middle Binks. She was the Runswick Bay, of Hull, bound for the fishing grounds and tarrying a crew of fifteen. A light breeze was blowing and...
Urgent
Cromer, Norfolk.—At about midday on the 10th February, 1938, the wind veered suddenly from W. to N.W., reaching gale force, and the sea became heavy. Two fishing boats were known to be still at sea, and at 12.25 P.M. the No. 1 motor...