LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Rubber Dinghies
MAY 23RD. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 5.38 in the evening the coastguard reported that two rubber dinghies, with five people on board, which had put out from Jaywick, were drifting helplessly three miles to the...
Doris, of Shoreham
JUNE 27TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. About four in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a man was waving a red flag on a yacht which was dragging her anchor off Holland Sluice. The motor lifeboat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty...
Pactolus
JULY 27TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. On the night of the 26th of July the yacht Pactolus disappeared from her anchorage. A watch was kept for her. At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 27th, the signal station at The Needles reported that, a...
The Sailing Barge Monarch
OCTOBER 14TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
About four in the afternoon the coastguard reported that H.M.S. Albatross was towing the sailing barge Monarch and had asked that the life-boat should go out, take over, and tow her into...
Three Fishing Drifters and The Scottish Drifter Coreopsis
NOVEMBER 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 11.17 in the morning the Gorleston coastguard reported a fishing drifter ashore a quarter of a mile south of the look-out. A light southsouth- east breeze was blowing and the sea was...
Melrose, of Galway
AUGUST 21ST. - GALWAY BAY. At 2.45 in the afternoon information was received from the coast life-saving service at Casla that the motor boat Melrose, of Galway, was on the rocks in Casla Bay. A moderate south-easterly breeze was blowing,...
Nautilus, of South Shields
About 9 o'clock on the evening of Sunday, the 1st October last, during a strong easterly breeze, a brig struck on the Barber Sands, the sea im- mediately breaking over her. This being observed from the shore, the Caister life- boat was...
Merite
FEBRUARY 21ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 10.40 A.M. t h e coastguard reported a light E. by S. of Peterhead, and later reported that it was still to be seen, drifting northward. A fresh N.E. breeze was blowing with a moderate...
The Minesweeper Erimo
FEBRUARY 22ND. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 11.18 A.M. information was received from the coastguard that the minesweeper Erimo had struck a mine about one and a half miles off the Mumbles, and was flying distress signals. A fresh S.E....
Rambling Rose and Cynthia, of Amble
AUGUST 25TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 9.39 at night the Seahouses coastguard telephoned that two cabin cruisers were making distress signals four miles north-north-east of Boulmer.
A slight breeze was blowing...