LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tranmere
SELSEY.—The barque Tranmere, of Liverpool, bound from Hull to Cardiff in ballast, brought up off Selsey Bill, during a gale of wind from the 8. and in a very heavy sea, at about noon on the 2nd September.
A fisherman's...
Mary Jane
On the morning of the llth of January the wind suddenly shifted to the N., and rapidly increased in violence until at noon it blew a fresh gale from the N.E., with a very high sea. At the time there was a small schooner, the Mary Jane, of...
Langton Grange
The steamer Langton Grange, of London, a vessel of upwards of nine thousand tons register, belonging to the Houlder Line, stranded during a dense fog on the 5th August on the North Bishop Rocks.
Her signals of distress were...
Skylark
During the after- noon of the 10th July the coastguard telegraphed that a small motor boat had broken down one mile south of the Southbourne coastguard station. She was the motor boat Skylark, of Poole, and was bound, with four men and two...
The Sailing Barge William Cleverly
Early on the morning of the 18th December the coastguard telephoned that a sailing barge was dragging her anchor about three miles E. by N. of the pier, and the motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 1.52 A.M. A moderate south...
Mary Joy, Just Reward, Floreat & Launch Out
The crew of the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II were assembled at 9 A.M. on the 27th February, as several fishing boats were at sea, and conditions were getting bad. At noon a S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. One of the boats...
Fortunatus and Pilot Me
Several fishing boats went to sea early on the morning of the 21st February, and by noon all of tibem except the motor fishing boats Fortwnatus and Pilot Me had returned to harbour. Later a moderate N.N.E.
gale sprang up,...
A Small Boat
BOAT-THIEVES RESCUED W aimer, Kent.—At 10.10 in the morn- ing of the 1st of November, 1947, a wireless message from the South Good- win Light-vessel said that she had picked up a small boat with two men aboard, and wanted the life-boat to go...
Children's Friend
ANOTHER FISHING BOAT BROKEN DOWN Boulmer, Northumberland. — About noon on the 26th of December, 1947. a fishing boat, three miles to the south- east of Boulmer, was seen to hoist a signal of distress and the motor life- boat Clarissa Langdon...
Blandford
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 11.8 a.m. on 4th March, 1966, a message was received that the tanker Blandford had a sick man on board and that the services of a doctor were urgently required. After contacting a doctor the life-boat Edian...