LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
William and Eliza
On the 25th March, while a strong breeze was blowing from N.E., accompanied by a rough sea and snow squalls, the Coastguard reported a vessel on the Buxey Sand, showing a signal of distress.
At 10.30 a.m. the Life-boat...
The S.S. Belle
WEXFORD, Co. WEXFORD.—On the 31st January the s.s. Belle, lightship tender, while returning to Wexford from the Lucifer Shoal Light-vessel, in a moderate breeze, with a moderate sea and thick weather at times, grounded on the E, end of the...
The S.S. Shilbottle
At about 4.50 A.M. on 25th February a message was received from the Coastguards, stating that a vessel was ashore at the mouth of the River Bann, and that the Life-boat was wanted. The Life-boat Hopwood was launched as expeditiously as...
Victor
The motor fishing-boat Victor, registered at Montrose but belonging to the village of Johnshaven, when returning from the fishing ground on the 23rd October, got into difficulties owing to the un- satisfactory working of the motor, and as a...
The S.S. Grosvenor
DOCTOR TO A SCALDED SEAMAN Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— At about 7 o'clock in the evening of the 13th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported that the S.S. Grosvenor, which was lying off the harbour entrance, had signalled for a...
A Dinghy
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 5.23 in the morning of the 29th of April, 1948, the coastguard reported that a rubber dinghy, believed to have two people on board, could be seen two miles to the north-east. The motor life-boat Michael Stephens...
Kestrel
Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 9.59 on the night of the 16th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat, with a rope round her propeller, was burning oily rags half a mile off Corton beach. The motor life-boat Mary Scott, on...
The S.S. Afon Gwili
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 3.27 in the morning of the 1st of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Afon Gwili, of Llanelly, had anchored about a mile to the south-east of Yarmouth, and had asked...
Flanders
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 1.20 in the morning of the 18th of Saptember, 1948, the Bangor coastguard telephoned that a trawler had wirelessed that she had picked up two men, who had been adrift in a motor boat, and asked for the life-boat to...
Peggy
Hastings, Sussex. — At 6.32 in the evening of the 31st of July, 1949, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned infor- mation received from St. Leonards that a dinghy was drifting between the St.
Leonards Pier and Bo Peep, and at...