LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Floradora
Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 11.13 on the night of the 15th of November, 1957, the coastguard reported that a vessel was making distress signals about half a mile off Anstruther harbour.
The life-boat James and Ruby Jackson...
The S.S. Zeester
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 9.35 A.M. on the 12th April, 1939, the coastguard reported that the St.
Nicholas Light-vessel was firing guns and flying signals indicating that a vessel was in...
Roma
Fleet wood, Lancashire.—At 1.30 P.M.
on the llth June, 1939, the lighthousekeeper reported that a small motor boat was aground on the east side of the Wyre Channel. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea. Two...
An Ex-Naval Motor Launch
LAUNCH BROKEN DOWN IN A HEAVY SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 4.0 in the afternoon of January 15th, 1947, the coastguard reported that a vessel, believed to be an ex-naval motor launch, was drifting five miles south of the coastguard...
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Campbeltown, Argyllshire. •—• On the 7th of March, 1947, when the roads were blocked with snow, the president of the District Nursing Association, in consultation with a doctor, asked the life-boat to take a doctor and nurse to Southend to...
Comfort
FISHING BOAT AGROUND Whitehills, Banffshire.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 13th of May, 1947, a fisherman reported that a boat was aground on Salt Stones Reef about half a mile from the harbour entrance, and the motor life-boat...
Mabruki
Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.40 ill the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1947, Lloyd's Signal Station reported that a motor yacht was in distress and drag- ging her anchor one hundred yards off the station. The motor life-boat Charles Cooper...
Two Rowing Boats
EXHAUSTED ROWERS Wicklow.—At 6.35 in the evening of the 10th of August, 1947, a telephone message was received from the light- keeper at Wicklow Head that two rowing boats were in difficulties south of Wicklow Head in a very strong ebb...
The S.S. Fawn
STRANDED STEAMER TOWED IN Appledore, Devon. — At 5.30 in the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1947, the Westward Ho coastguard tele- phoned that a steamer was firing white rockets half a mile north-west of the Bar Buoy and the...
Moa
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.30 on the night of the 25th of January, 1948, the Hoylake coastguard tele- phoned that a fishing vessel was in distress near C.2 A Buoy, half a mile off the Crosby Lightvessel and at 12.15 the No. 2 motor...