LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Candourity
STANDING BY MOTOR VESSEL IN GALE Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 6.40 on the evening of the 8th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the master of the motor vessel Candourity of London had asked for the life-boat to stand...
Zoe
YACHT TOWED IN At 6.20 p.m. on nth July, 1965, a vessel reported a yacht aground on the south side of West Swin Barrow Deep and at 6.33 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched. A gale was blowing from the south...
Beverwuck
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At I p.m. on 8th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an attempt was to be made to refloat the Dutch dredger Beverwuck which had gone aground on the i8th November, 1965. The dredger...
Kenfine, of Dover
Dover, Kent - At 1.47 p.m. on I2th July, 1966, the harbour control station informed the honorary secretary that an auxiliary motor yacht was dismasted and in difficulties about one mile and a half south of the breakwater. Her engine had...
The Tender Offshore I
At 2 p.m. on 5th August, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four youths in a hired rowing dinghy were missing. At 2.37 the life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings in a fresh west north westerly breeze and a rough...
Tempo
FEBRUARY 3RD. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
At 1.5 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a ship’s life-boat about 1 1/2 miles N. of Carr Rock, Berwick-on-Tweed, with men on board, was in need of help. A full...
The M.F.V.988, A Minesweeper
NOVEMBER 16TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE. About 3.45 in the afternoon word was received that a motor fishing vessel had gone on the rocks near Cellardyke. A light north-easterly breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. There was a thick...
Eva
The Life-boat Willie and Arthur was launched at 6.15 P.M. on the 25th September, the Coastguard having reported that a schooner, which was in the roadstead, was dragging her anchors and making signals for assistance. A moderate S.E.
Noel II, Venus, Galillee, Pilot Me and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 15th November, 1937, the local motor fishing boats Noel II, Venus, Galillee, Pilot Me and Success were caught at sea by bad weather.
When they were seen approaching harbour the...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel (1)
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At four o'clock in the afternoon on the 18th of May, 1950, the Inspector of the Irish Lights telephoned to ask the life-boat to go to the Coningbeg Lightvessel and bring ashore a lightkeeper whose father was dying....