LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Emperor
PORTHDINLLAEN.—The schooner Emperor, of Beaumaris, bound from Cork for Port Dinorwic, in ballast, showed a signal of distress while lying at anchor in the bay during a strong N.E. wind, and a heavy sea, on the 2nd November. The Life-boat,...
Yap
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. —• At 10.44 in the morning of the 15th of September, 1948, the Rhyl coastguard telephoned that a fishing vessel in Penrhyn Bay was driving ashore, and the motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards was...
Carmela
Plymouth, Devon.—On the night of the 18th July flares were reported from the eastern end of the breakwater. A moderate S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain. The motor life-boat Robert and Marcella Beck put off at 11.50...
Cheshire Cat
Ramsgate, Kent - At 12.48 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, the East pier watchman noticed that the motor launch Cheshire Cat with nine people on board was aground in Pegwell bay. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis left her moorings at 12.55 in a...
Fishing Boats (3)
MCH. 2OTH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Shortly before midday the lifeboat coxswain reported that several small fishing boats beating in towards the bay were in danger. The weather was squally, with hail showers, and a very...
John Soyle
On the 8th September the schooner John Soyle, of Chester, was reported to haye sank on Cartmell Wharf, Morecambe Bay, during a strong W.N.W, gale and a heavy sea. At 11.45 A.M. the William Krkett Life-boat went to her assistance, and found...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Fifteen of the fishing cobles belonging to Staithes and two belonging to Whitby had gone off in the morning of the 7th February to the fishing, when a heavy sea came on, rendering it impossible for them to reach their own ports. Owing to the...
A Dinghy (5)
Largs, Ayrshire. At 10.5 p.m. on July, 1965, the police reported that a small dinghy with three persons on board was in difficulties a mile and a half south-west of the South Bay. At 10.17 the IRB launched in a strong easterly breeze and...
Corea, of Guernsey
About 4 p.m. on the 19th April, the barque Corea, of Guernsey, was observed on Taylor's Bank in Liverpool Bay, the wind being from the S.W. and weather squally.
The New Brighton (tubular) life-boat was quickly launched...
Margaret, of Skibbereen
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 10.20 at night a fisherman returned from trawling and reported that a lobster boat appeared to be in distress near How Strand, to the east of Courtmacsherry Bay. A whole north-west gale was...