LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mayflower
The No. 1 motor life-boat John and Sarah Eliza Stych was launched at 10.41 A.M. on the 9th July, as a telephone message had been received from the coastguard that a small sailing boat was drifting towards Pentire Head. A moderate...
Sarah Latham
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 4.30 in the morning of the 19th of July, 1948, the Castletown coastguard telephoned that the keeper at Langness Point Light had reported red flares from a small vessel, and the motor life-boat Sir Heath...
Cartaret
Torbay, Devon.—At 1.55 in the afternoon of the 6th of September, 1948, the Brixham coastguard tele- phoned that a motor cruiser was on fire three-quarters of a mile south- south-west of Berry Head, and the motor life-boat George Shee was...
Rait Castle
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 11.20 in the morning of the 27th of November, 1948, the harbour master reported a telephone message from the Post Office at Barmston that a vessel was ashore, and the motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, was...
A Rubber Dinghy (4)
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 6.15 in the evening of the llth of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea, and at half past six the life-boat Jane Holland, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Gannet, of Gillingham
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At 12.20 P.M. on the 13th December, 1937, information was received from the signal station at the pierhead that a barge about a quarter of a mile east of the pier was signalling for help. The life-boat crew went...
Magna
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 5.45 on the morning of the 13th of January, 1959, the honorary secretary heard from Wick radio station that there was a badly injured seaman aboard the motor vessel Magna of Helsingborg, Sweden, who needed medical...
A Sailing Boat
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 11.59 on the night of the 9th of May, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a sailing boat with one man on board, which had last been seen off the west pier earlier that day, had not returned to...
John Orwell Phillips
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.41 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the collier John Orwell Phillips of London that a member of her crew was in a coma...
Empress of England
Padstow, Cornwall. At 8.45 on the evening of the 1st of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Eldorita had the motor launch Empress of England, which had one man aboard, in tow and was making for...