LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lord Wakefield's Gifts. A New Motor Life-Boat and Boat-House at Hythe, Kent
THE Viscount Wakefield of Hythe, G.C.V.O., C.B.E., LL.D., who is vice- president of the Hythe, Kent, branch, has presented to the Institution the whole cost, amounting to £9,669 2s. 9d., of the new motor life-boat which was stationed at...
Category: Donations
The Small Rowing Boat Winifred
The small rowing boat Winifred, of Ramsgate, with two men aboard, put to sea on the morning of the 13th July, but a thick fog came down and the men did not know where they were. Their cries for help were heard, and the Motor Life-boat...
M.F.V. Mary (1)
MFV broken down HM COASTGUARD reported to the deputy launching authority of Southend-on-Sea lifeboat station at 1706 on Sunday May 2, 1982, that MFV Mary had broken down and had asked for immediate help; she was about 15 miles east of the...
Acacia
On the 12th May the ketch Acacia, of London, bound from Grimsby for Faro for the fisheries, was seen in the bay, evidently making for the harbour, in a moderate N.N.E. breeze and a rough sea, and a telephone message was received from the...
H.M. Balloon Drifter Marcia
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At about 11.30 at night the coastguard asked the life-boat to go to the help of a balloon drifter which was ashore in Blyth Bay about half a mile S.S.W. of Blyth piers. The night was...
Lythemore
KIMERIDGE, DORSET.—A vessel was reported ashore on Kimeridge Ledge during a thick fog, a heavy ground sea, and a fresh S.W. wind, on the 26th June. The Life-boat Augustus Arkwright was launched at 9 P.M. and found the stranded vessel was the...
Pelagos, of Granton
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. — The steam trawler Pelagos, of Granton, ran ashore on South Carr rocks in a dense fog on the morning of the llth July, while returning to Granton from the North Sea fishing grounds. A moderate east breeze was...
The S.S. Goldbell
On the night of the 21st June the coastguard tele- phoned that a ship was ashore on Beachy Head ledge. The sea was smooth, but there was a very thick fog.
The Eastbourne life-boat was off ser- vice for overhaul and the...
Success
NOVEMBER 19TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the afternoon the weather worsened. The only Whitby fishing boat still at sea was the motor fishing boat Success.
Anxiety was felt for her safety. A southwesterly...
None
During the same fierce gale, on 9th July, the Life-boat at Totland Bay was called out. Shortly after midnight the Brooke Station reported that its Boat was being launched, and at 1.35 another message was received that a vessel three or four...