LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saunterer, of Blyth
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. — During the afternoon of the 5th August the coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on Tyne sands, three miles west of Dunbar. She was the sailing yacht Saunterer, of Blyth, cruising in the Firth of Forth and...
Peggy
New Quay and Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.
—At 1.40 P.M. on the 31st May, 1938, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Peggy, of New Quay, with two men on board, had put out at 2 A.M.
and was long...
White Wings
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—While the motor life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was out on exercise on the 25th June, 1938, a yacht was seen flying a distress signal about a mile S.W. of Lavernock Point. A strong W.N.W.
breeze...
Yacht Betsy
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 1 P.M. on the 1st August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a motor fishing boat which had been to a vessel off the Naze was on her way back showing distress signals. A freshening strong N.E. breeze was...
Passing Cloud
Information was received from Killantringan Light- house through Portpatrick Wireless Station at 8.15 A.M. on the 10th August that two small fishing boats were in distress and struggling to reach safety against a strong S.W. breeze with a...
A Fishing Boat
Two fishermen of Appledore went mackerel fishing off Rock's Nose on the afternoon of the llth August. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth.
A sudden squall capsized the boat, and both men were...
Boy Bob
The motor life-boat Lady Rothes was launched at 5.15 P.M. on the 9th February, as a telephone message had been received from the coastguard that the local fishing boat Boy Bob had gone out early that day to haul her lines off Gardenstown,...
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...
Sevona
Selsey, Sussex. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 15th of March, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been reported off Bognor and that further enquiries were being made. At 2.40 the coastguard reported that...
A Dinghy (2)
Dover, Kent. At 1.15 on the after- noon of the 22nd of April, 1959, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that a small dinghy with an outboard motor was drifting half a mile south of the signal...