LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Keel Boat Thankful, Coble Evelyn Margaret and Fishing Boat Dahlia
NOVEMBER 1ST. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Wind and sea had got up in the morning while several fishing boats were out, and by eleven o’clock a strong easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea.
The motor life-boat Herbert...
A Lancaster Aeroplane
NOVEMBER 24TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
The instruments of a Lancaster bombing aeroplane failed while she was returning from Berlin and the airmen, instead of being at 1,000 feet as they reckoned, found themselves in the...
A Vessel (27)
J ULY 2 0 T H. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. A vessel had struck a mine in Belfast Lough, but her crew had got ashore in the ship’s boats. - Rewards, £4 10s..
A Norwegian Cargo Ship
OCTOBER 10TH. - ARRANMORE,. CO DONEGAL. A Norwegian cargo ship had been torpedoed and some survivors had landed in a boat. Search was made for other survivors, in another boat, but without success and it was found later that they had landed...
None (8)
FEBRUARY 16TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. A Halifax bombing aeroplane had been reported in difficulties and her crew were said to have baled out, but no survivors could be found in the sea. - Rewards, £34 14s. 6d..
Elizabeth and Cicely, of Guernsey
The brig Eliza- beth and Cicely, of Guernsey, ran ashore off this place about one o'clock on the morn- ing of the 16th Jan., and soon began to break up, the crew of 8 men being forced to take refuge in the rigging. When the perilous...
Renif
Poole, Dorset.—At 6.15 on the even- ing of the 26th of March, 1955, the police reported that a man and his wife had put out in the local motor launch Renif, but had been missing since 2.35.
At 6.30 the life-boat Thomas Kirk...
The Sailing Barge Spurgeon
Margate, Kent.—At 6.7 on the even- ing of the 8th of August, 1952, thecoastguard telephoned that a sailing barge was ashore on the North-East Shingle Sands, and at 6.10 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI, was launched. The...
Notes of the Quarter
THE months of May and June were exceptionally exacting ones for the life-boat service. In May there were as many as 78 service launches, ten more than the previous record figure for the month of May. The number of service launches in June...
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Prima Donna
WEXFORD.—At about 3.30 P.M. on the llth February, while a strong gale was blowing from the W.S.W., the fishing yawl Prima Donna, of Wexford, grounded on the south side of the bar. The No. 1 Life-boat, Andrew Pickard, was at once manned and...