LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ranger
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.53 in the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1948, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board reported that a fishing boat had capsized and the crew were clinging to C.ll Black Buoy. A moderate north- westerly breeze was...
Belvoir Castle
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 4.30 in the morning of the 7th of August, 1948, the South Gare coastguard telephoned that a red flare could be seen to the north-west of North Gare breakwater and at 5.15 the motor life-boat J....
Fennel
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—About 9.30 on the night of the 9th of October1948, a vessel was seen to enter Dungarvan Harbour, at full speed and run aground on Whitehouse Bank. She was not seen to signal, but telephone messages from...
The S.S. Empire Flamingo
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 8.15 in the morning of the 26th of October, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the tug Superman asking for the life-boat to take four men off a sinking hulk three miles south of...
The S.S. Fulham II
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 6.45 in the evening of the 10th of December, 1948, the police telephoned that North Foreland radio station had reported the s.s. Fulham II, of London, one mile north-east of Britannia Pier, with a...
Osprey
Rhyl, Flintshire. —At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 24th of April, 1949, the owner of the local fishing vessel Osprey, reported that she was aground in the surf half a mile north of the entrance to Foryd Harbour. It could be seen that she had...
The S.S. Florence Cooke
Moelfre, Anglesey. — About 8.30 in the morning of the 26th of July, 1949, the Holyhead coastguard telephoned that a man was adrift in a dinghy one mile east of Point Lynas, and at 8.45 the life-boat G.W. was launched, in a light...
Helen
Fleetwood, Lancashire. — At 6.30 in the evening of the 7th of August, 1949, the harbour authorities reported a yacht on the Lighthouse Bank, one and three-quarter miles north of the life- boat station, and at 7.25 the life-boat Ann Letitia...
Fishing Boats (1)
Runswick, Yorkshire.—Early in the morning of the 18th February six Staithes fishing cobles put off to the fishing grounds. The' weather was then fine, but there was a strong swell running. The southerly wind rose from a strong breeze to...
A Motor Boat (1)
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—On the morning of the 27th June a motor boat left Methil, with seven people on board, pleasure fishing. At 9.48 A.M. the coastguard reported that she had gone ashore in Largo bay, but as the coastguard life-saving...