LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Rowing Boat
During a strong W.S.W. breeze with heavy sea on the 12th August, a man put off in a small rowing-boat, but got into diffi- culties, and was seen drifting with the tide rapidly towards the Gorton Sands.
His signals of...
Mannin
Douglas, Isle of Man.—On the afternoon of the 20th March, 1939, a whole gale sprang up from the N.W., bringing with it a heavy sea. A watch was kept for the local fishing smack Mannin, which was at sea. As nothing had been seen of her by 3 P...
A Steamer (2)
15th March. A steamer had gone ashore on Cardigan Island, but her crew of four scrambled to safety and were brought to the mainland by the life-saving apparatus. A letter of appreciation was sent to Mr. Joseph Soar, honorary secretary at St....
A Small Boat (4)
On the 31st March a visitor went for a row in a small boat, but was carried out to sea by the wind and tide. He was seen by the coastguard, and the motor life-boat Westmorland was launched to his help at 12.23 P.M. A strong W.S.W. breeze was...
Invermore, of Dublin (1)
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
A Pulling Boat
Poolbeg, Co. Dublin. — At 6.40 on the night of the 13th of March, 1949, a man telephoned to the life-boat station that a pulling boat with two girls in it was drifting down the river Liffy. There was a fresh south- westerly wind, the sea was...
A Dinghy (2)
TAKEN IN TOW At 11.53 a.m. on 20th May, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that a man had been seen in difficulties off Kimmeridge ledge. It was requested that the life-boat be launched. A sergeant and a constable embarked in...
Achieve
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 22nd of August, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that he had received a message from the Barnsness lighthouse that a man in a drifting fishing boat a mile east of the light- house was...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 30th of Novem- ber, 1954, a man at Northbay tele- phoned that a Northbay fishing boat with a crew of two was long overdue.He asked if the life-boat would search for her. At 7.10 the...
Glamis
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 9.15 on the night of the 17th of June, 1950, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Glamis, of Dundee, four miles to the northward, had wirelessed for a doctor. At 9.32, with the honorary secretary, Major E. Peter...