LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Traquair
Caister, Norfolk. —At 5.20 in the morning, on the 22nd of November1950, the Great Yarmouth coastguard reported that a vessel seemed to be in distress and aground on Scroby Elbow to the south-east. At 5.30 the life-boat Jose...
Wendy
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.— At 8.50 on the evening of the 17th of June, 1951, the life-boat motor mec- hanic reported that he had seen a yacht, apparently in distress, on the north side of the River Ribble. At 9.5 he said the yacht was...
Grainne
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 8.50 on the morning of the 16th of July, 1951, the Civic Guards in Clontarf reported that the boat Grainne had left Clontarfon the previous day, but had not been heard of since. They thought that she might be in some...
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AN IRISH LIFE-BOAT AS AMBULANCE Galway Bay.—On the 12th of March, 1947, the Kilronan doctor asked that the life-boat should take him to a man who was very ill at Inisheer. A south-easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and no ordinary...
Rosehearty
YACHT FOUND NEAR ROCKS IN FOG St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 4.20 on the morning of the 22nd April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was ashore and had been holed three miles west of St. Abbs Head. At 4.40 the...
Mercury
ESCORT FOR PLEASURE BOAT VISITING ISLANDS North Sunderland, Northumberland.
About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th June, 1962, the weather began to grow worse, and by 3.45 the sea had become very rough. The...
B.Y. 109
DUTCH SLOOP TOWED TO DOVER Dover, Kent. At 7.14 on the evening of Saturday the 7th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a 35-foot Dutch sloop had broken down between 300 and 400 yards astern of the South Goodwin...
Premier
ENGINES HAD STOPPED As the fishing coble Premier was known to be at sea and the weather conditions were rapidly deteriorating the life-boat crew assembled at 7.30 a.m. on loth November, 1963. At 9.10 the coastguard informed the honorary...
Ariel
LAUNCHED AGAIN At 3.58 p.m. on loth August, 1965, the coastguard told the wife of the motor mechanic that a cargo ship was on the rocks five miles east of Selsey Bill. The motor mechanic was on his way home from the previous launch and was...
Jamaica
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 6.50 a.m. on loth November, 1965, the local trawler Jamaica was reported aground on the sandbank off Lowestoft harbour. She had sent out a 'Mayday' call. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick went out at 7.5 in...