LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Golden Rule II and Dawn
The Motor Life- boat John and William Mudie was launched at 8.45 A.M. and again at 10.30 A.M. on 12th May, in a strong S.E. breeze with a very heavy sea and escorted into harbour the local fishing boats Golden Rule II. and Dawn.
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A Motor Pinnace belonging to Yacht Westward
Soutbend-on-Sea, Essex. — On the night of the 22nd May a message was received from the watchman at the pierhead that a motor pinnace, belonging to the schooner yacht Westward, which was anchored off the pier, was drifting rapidly to the west...
Hawkinge (1)
A LOST PROPELLER Montrose, Angus.—At 6.8 in the evening of the 10th of May, 1947, the Scurdy Ness Lighthouse keeper reported that a motor yacht about a mile off- shore was making distress signals, and the No. 1 motor life-boat The Good...
The S.S. Baron Elcho
Workington, Cumberland.—On the morning of the 12th of November, 1952, the S.S. Baron Elcho, of Ardros- san, wirelessed that she was short of provisions. At 10.30 the life-boat N.T. was launched in a calm sea with a light easterly...
A Sailing Boat
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — At 11.45 on the night of the 26th of August, 1953, the Civic Guard reported that two youths and an elderly man had put out in a sailing boat, but had not returned. At midnight the life-boat H. F. Bailey...
Vitesse
New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 1.55 early on the morning of the 18th of October, 1953, the Formby coastguard reported that the motor vessel Vitesse, of Delfzijl, Netherlands, had gone aground on the revetment near C.25 Black Buoy in the River...
Summity
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 5.35 on the evening of the 3rd of November, 1953, a shipping company at Par reported that they had received a message that the motor ship Summity, of London, had asked for help as she had broken down half a mile...
Victory and Sarah Ann
Holy Island, Northumberland.—About eight o'clock on the morning of the 21st of January, 1954, the life-boat coxswain reported that there was a heavy swell on the harbour bar, and that he felt anxious for the safety of two fishing boats....
None (1)
Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At 3.5 on the afternoon of the 21st of Feb- ruary, 1954, the coastguard reported that a man was in the sea in French- man Bay, about one and three-quarter miles south of the Tyne. At 4.14 the life-boat Tynesider...
A Glider
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 4.55 in the afternoon, on the 25th of April, 1950, the Walton coastguard telephoned that a man could be seen waving on what appeared to be a submerged aero- plane between one and two miles south- east of...