LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver City
During a whole S. W.
gale on the 6th December information j was received that a vessel coming up the j roads was flying signals for assistance.
The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat, Civil Ser- vice No. 1, were...
Eva
At 1.45 P.M. on the 13th February signals of distress were observed from the cutter Eva, of Liverpool, at anchor in a dangerous part of Fishguard Bay: she was dragging her anchors and the three men on board feared she might run ashore. It...
Dorothea
Shortly before 9 A.M. on the 8th January a telephone message was received from the Maplin Lighthouse, stating that there was a barge ashore on the "Burrows" with a signal of distress in her rigging. There was a strong W.N.W. gale...
Fishing Boats
On the even- ing of the 12th September fourteen of the fishing-boats belonging to Whitby went out to fish. Later the wind fresh- ened considerably from N.N.E. and bad weather followed, causing them to make for port again. About midnight,...
Cragoswald
The steamer Cragoswald, of Newcastle, whilst bound from Barry to Venice with a cargo of coal, and carrying twenty-seven hands, stranded on the Low Lee Rock in Mount's Bay, in fine weather on the 29th April. The Life-boat Elizabeth and...
Fishing Cobles
As several fishing cobles had been over- taken by a strong S.S.W. gale with a rough, sea on 3rd November, the No. 1 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Forester put out at 9.30 A.M., went in the direction of the fishing grounds, about four miles...
Venus and Pilot Me
About 5 A.M. on the 18th October four of the local fishing boats put to sea. Shortly afterwards the wind veered to the N.N.W. and increased to a strong gale with very heavy seas which made it dangerous to enter the harbour. One of the boats...
Oyster Catcher
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 1.50 in the afternoon of the 8th of June, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that a small yacht had capsized two OT three miles out, south of the Medusa Buoy, and the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. left her...
Guernsey Coast
MOTOR VESSEL REFLOATED Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 7.20 in the morning of the 27th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Guernsey Coast, of London, was ashore five miles north-east of North Foreland with her steering...
Irene and Brighter Hope
Bridlington, Yorkshire. — On her re- turn from the service to the John Watt, the life-boat remained in the harbour and was not returned to her house as the weather was getting worse and there were fishing boats still at sea.' At about 11...