LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
Wells, Norfolk.—About 10.0 on the morning of the 4th of July, 1951, a gale sprang up from the north-east and the sea became very rough. Nine local fishing boats were at sea, and it was thought advisable for the life- boat to stand by them....
Fishing Boats
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—Oil the after- noon of the 3rd of January, 1955, the wind freshened, and at 4.15 the coast- guard telephoned that several fishing boats from Pittenweem were lying off the harbour, waiting for the tide to rise...
Cornel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and Minehead, Somerset.—At 7.40 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1955, the Tenby coastguard rang up the Tenby life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Cornel, of Cardiff, bound for Bristol with a cargo of...
Mamounia
Dover, Kent.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 1st of July, 1956, the Eastern Arm signal station reported that a small sailing yacht was in difficulties close inshore to South Foreland. At 6.25 the life-boat Southern Africa put out in a rough...
Poseidon
On the night of the 23rd of January, 1954, the Montrose, Angus, and the Aberdeen life-boats both went to the help of the fishing boat Poseidon, of Rothesay, whose engines had broken down. A south-easterly gale was blowing, and there was a...
Maybe
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 27th of May, 1954, the life-boat's motor mechanic saw the yacht Maybe, of Dun Laog- haire, capsize half a mile off the Nose of Howth. Five minutes later the life-boat R.P.L....
Janet
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 5.3 on the afternoon of the 5th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a small boat was in difficulties off Pen- ryn Point South Stack. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at 5.12....
Evertsen
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 12.42 in the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1948, the Gorleston coastguard reported that the Dutch motor vessel Evertsen, which was off the harbour, had signalled for a doctor. Six...
A Motor Launch (1)
Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland.— Just after 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the 29th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported that a motor launch, in trying to enter the harbour in a fresh northerly breeze, with a heavy swell, had run...
Pilot Me II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of January, 1949, the local fishing boat Pilot Me II was at sea.
The wind increased rapidly until it was blowing strongly from the north-west, with a heavy sea breaking on the...