LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bretton Hall
BBIXHAM, SOUTH DEVON.—Bockets were seen and signal guns heard during a S.E.
wind and a very heavy sea on the evening of Sunday the 6th December. The Lifeboat Brian Sates was launched at about 7 o'clock, pulled round...
The Sea Cadet Boats Rosie and Black Cap
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 8.40 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1955, the Formby coastguard reported that the Sea Cadet pinnace Rosie was ashore on Devil's Bank in the river Mersey off Garston. At 8.50 the life- boat Norman 13....
The S.S. Firethorn
STEAMER ABANDONED IN HEAVY SEA Barrow, Lancashire.—At 10.35 on the night of January llth, 1947, informa- tion was received, through the Hoylake coastguard, from the Morecambe Bay Light-vessel, that a vessel was in distress, and the motor...
A Cabin Cruiser
Swanage, Dorset.—At 7.36 on the evening of 9th of October, 1957, the Studland coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen in the direction of Canford Cliffs. The life-boat R.L.P.
was launched at 8.1 in calm...
Alert
MOTOR LAUNCH SPOTTED BY AIRCRAFT Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 8.35 on the evening of the 25th May, 1962, the life-boat E.M.M. Gordon Cubbin left her moorings in a strong northerly wind and a rough sea to search for the small motor launch...
Themlyay
YACHT FOUND AFTER SEARCH AND TOWED IN Weymouth, Dorset. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 31st July, 1962, the Wyke coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a wireless message received from the yacht Themlyay, of Hull, stating that she...
Widgeon
YACHTSMEN RESCUED AFTER SEARCH IN ROUGH SEA Wicklow. On the morning of the 23rd June, 1963, it was decided to make a search for the motor yacht Widgeon, which had been reported missing while bound for Wicklow from Howth with a crew of two,...
Notts Forest
SICK MAN LANDED FROM TRAWLER Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 11.35 on the night of Tuesday the 30th of July, 1963, the Stornoway coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Notts Forest of Grimsby, on passage to Stornoway to...
Patricia
YACHT'S CREW SAVED At 12.13 P-m. on the same day the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in difficulties off Ramsgate. At 12.25 tne life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, put...
Venus
Hastings, Sussex. At 11.26 on the morning of the 6th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small craft was anchored between a mile and a half and two miles south-west of Galley Hill,...