LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Viking and Loch Maree
Minehead, Somerset. — During the evening of the 9th August, 1939, a message was received from the Hurlestone Point coastguard that the motor yacht Viking was on fire six miles north of Porlock Weir and that the motor yacht Loch Maree, of...
A Dinghy, Rona and Theodore
FOUR SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT SEARCH FOR BOY St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 1.34 on the morning of Thursday the 22nd August, 1963, a message was received from the signal station that the Alderney harbourmaster had reported that a boy was missing in...
Janet
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. On the morn- ing of the 4th August, 1961, when the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was returning to her station from Brightlingsea after a service the day before, the coxswain decided to in- vestigate the position of a...
Splash
The chief of operations has written to the Commissioners of Irish Lights thanking the keeper and crew of the Kish Bank lighthouse for their assistance during a five-hour search for a yacht in difficulties. Without their help it might have...
Lifeboat Services
August storms TWO DEEPENING DEPRESSIONS sweeping in from the Atlantic last summer within a few days of each other brought with them first, on August 9, severe gales with storm force gusts and then, on the night of August 13 and 14, storm...
Category: Services
Pastime
Storm A YACHT IN DISTRESS 23 nautical miles south west of Skerries Lighthouse was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Saturday, September 11, 1976. The bulk carrier Sugar Producer was...
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Fleetwood, Lancashire. —During the afternoon of Whit Sunday, the 16th of May, 1948, a yacht could he seen on Black Scar Bank apparently in diffi- culties. She made no distress signals, but at 5.15 in the evening, the coast- guard reported...
Maurice Georges
St. Helier, Jersey.—On the 13th of September, 1949, the life-boat Hearts of Oak, from the reserve fleet, doing tem- porary duty at the station, put out in search of an aeroplane, but found nothing and returned to her...
Mari
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — At 2.50 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the Totland Bay coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties one mile south of Highcliffe and at 3.0 o'clock the motor life-boat S.G.E. was...
Engadine
Margate, Kent.—On the morning of the 2nd October, 1938, a rowing boat belonging to Westgate, with two men on board, was seen to be in difficulties about half a mile N. of the S.E.
Margate Buoy. She was being blown out to...