LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat
Shortly before 6 P.M. on the 13th May a telephone message was received reporting that a motor-boat was in the bay drifting sea- wards with a signal of distress flying.
As there was a strong N.N.E. breeze blowing with a...
Thomas Stratton
POINT OF AYR.—The dandy Thomas Stratton, of Maldon, bound from Swansea for Mostyn, laden with burnt ore, stranded on the West Hoyle Bank in a strong breeze from N.W., and a choppy, breaking sea on the 23rd July. She commenced to leak, and...
Prince Llewellyn
WORTHING. — The schooner Prince Llewellyn, laden with slate from Portmadoc for Shoreham, stranded about two miles E. of Worthing pier at 2 P.M., on the 20th February, in a strong E.S.E.
breeze, a rough sea and thick weather...
Roslin
PETERHEA.D. — The steam trawler Boslin, of Aberdeen, returning home with several boxes of fish, stranded at Scotston Head in a moderate W.N.W.
breeze, a heavy sea and thick weather, about midnight on the 13th...
Olive, of Banff
WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. — On the 26th February, while the fishing boat Olive, of Banff, was attempting to put to sea in a moderate S.E. breeze, but rather rough sea, she grounded on a sandbankat the mouth of the harbour, when a huge wave...
Volant
The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, John Cleland, was launched at 10.30 P.M. on the 23rd December, 1931, in a strong S.S.W.
breeze, with a rough sea, as the Coast- guard had reported that a schooner was in distress in the...
Capitaine Bonelli
The French steamer Capitaine Bonelli, reported to the Ramsgate Coastguard at about 9.10 P.M., on 23rd February, that an explosion had been heard five miles E. of the South Goodwin Lightvessel. This in- formation was passed to the Life-boat...
Matilda Upton
The Motor Life- boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 8.15 A.M. on the 28th November as a message had been received from the Coastguard that a barge was in distress some miles north of Cromer. A strong N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy...
Kingfisher, Morning Star and S. B. Colling
Three local fishing cobles, Kingfisher, Morning Star and S. B. Colling, went out crabbing on the morning of the 10th February. Shortly afterwards the sea became rough and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched to their help. A...
Fishing Cobles
On the 29th June at 10.2 A.M. the coxswain reported that the local cobles were in danger off St. Paul's Point, as the sea was making and the wind rising. The weather was fine but a strong north- easterly breeze was blowing, with a...