LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pennan
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. — At 9.50 on the night of the 29th of August, 1950, a message was received that the motorfishing vessel Pennan, of Fraserburgh, was on a rock near the western entrance to Mallaig harbour. Ten minutes later the...
Bervor
Troon, Ayrshire.-—At 7.50 in the evening, on the 25th of September, 1950, a message was received from Irvine that a yacht had broken down off Irvine harbour and could not get in. So, at 8.15, the life-boat Sir David Richmond, of Glasgozv,...
Dainty Lady
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the after- noon of the 16th of February, 1951, the local motor fishing vessel Dainty Lady was at sea. A fresh south-south- easterly breeze was blowing and there was a very heavy swell. At 1.5 the Dainty Lady...
The Keel Boat Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 18th of March, 1951, the weather got worse, and there was anxiety for the safety of the local keel boat Courage, at sea with a crew of five.
At 1.15 in the afternoon the...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Dungeness, Kent.—At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1951, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a man was in difficulties in a sailing dinghy off Littlestone. At 1.15 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched. The sea...
Ebor Jewel
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.45 in the afternoon of the 17th of December, 1947, the Port War Signal Station telephoned that a vessel, three miles south of Spurn Point, was making distress signals, and the motor life-boat City of...
Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.50 on the night of the 20th of April, 1948, the local motor fishing boat Provider, which had put out earlier to attend to crab pots, wirelessed for the life-boat.
The No. 2. pulling and sailing...
The Queen's Fort
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.15 in the afternoon of the 7th of May, 1948, the Admiralty Salvage Officer tele- phoned that a man on the Queen's Fort, in the river Mersey, had been seriously injured. He asked for the life-boat and a...
Melrose
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At two in the afternoon of the 14th of October, 1948, information was received that the motor trawler Melrose, of Kilmore, had broken her propeller shaft and was drifting towards the shore two and a half...
Sally
Wells, Norfolk.—There was a thick fog in the afternoon of the 28th of January, 1948, and the owner of the local motor fishing boat Sally reported that she was overdue. He asked for the life-boat to search for her, and at 4.55 the Cecil Paine...