LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Boat Mary Anne
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At about 9.20 P.M. on the 6th September it was reported that a boy and a girl had left Lymington for Yarmouth some hours earlier in the sailing boat Mary Anne, but had not arrived. The honorary secretary, Captain A....
Consort
Troon, Ayrshire.—On the morning of the 27th March, 1938, a report was received from Irvine harbour that a fishing boat in Irvine bay was flying signals of distress. A strong N.W.
breeze was blowing, with a rough...
Naida
Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 11.2 P.M.
on the 17th July, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in distress a mile and a half S.E. of Tara look-out station. She was the motor yacht Naida, of Greenock, with two men...
The Open Sailing Boat Chance
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.12 P.M. on the 4th August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small open sailing boat, about a mile and a half from the lookout, was making very heavy weather.
The crew were bailing and she...
Boy Sam
St. Ives, Cornwall.—On the 16th August, 1938, the motor life-boat John and Sarah Eliza Stych was on passage from St. Ives to Falmouth for overhaul.
A strong W.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. As the life-boat...
A Small Boat (1)
Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the 15th July four visitors, two men and two women, put out in a small boat from Benllech.
A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The boat soon got out of control and was carried away...
Noel II, Golden Gate, Venus, Galilee, Lady Kitchener, et al
The fishing fleet put to sea early on the morning of the 4th February. At about 1 P.M., on 'the flowing tide, the sea made rapidly, and conditions became dan- gerous for the boats. The motor life- boat Margaret Marker Smith was launched...
Margaret and William, the Ina and the Douglasses
BIyth, Northumberland. — On the morning of the 6th May the coastguard telephoned that three or four fishing boats were at sea between Blyth and St. Mary's Island, and that owing to very heavy seas across the bar it would be dangerous for...
A Boat
Ramsgate, Kent.—On the evening of the 16th May, the coastguard telephoned that the police had reported two men cut off by the tide in Pegwell bay. A gentle east breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat City of Bradford...
Reclaim, of Lowestoft
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—On the morning of the 10th June the steam drifter Reclaim, of Lowestoft, carrying a crew of eleven, ran ashore on Middle Beach, West Angle Bay. A moderate west breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth, but the weather...