LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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On the 10th May some men from Bryher on their way home noticed four men ashore on Mincarlo, a small island south-west of Bryher, apparently without a boat. A moderate N.N.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. They went close and found...
Marie Celine
— On the 16th November the auxiliary ketch Marie Celine, of Connah's Quay, was bound from Connah's Quay to Dublin with a cargo of bricks. She had a crew of three. Four miles N.W. of Point Lynas all her sails were blown away and her...
A Small Boat (3)
Early on the morning of the 23rd March three boys put out from the harbour in a small boat and headed up the Bristol Channel.
When about half a mile out they tried to put about and return but were unable to do so, as a...
William Porter
Aberdeen.—On the night of the 17th January three pilots went down-channel to change the lights marking the wreck of the trawler George Stroud. While they were at work the propeller of their cutter—William Porter—fouled the mooring-wire, and...
Sunbeam
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the afternoon of the 27th May the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was aground on Scroby sands, bearing N.E. by E. from Yarmouth coastguard station. A rather heavy sea was...
Myrtle, and Morning Mist
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—About four in the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties half a mile west of Whitaker Beacon. At 4.15 the life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched in a strong...
Cambrian
Dungeness, Kent. — At 9.15 on the morning of the 29th of October, 1950, the Ramsgate coastguard reported that the motor cruiser Cambrian had asked for the help of the life-boat; and at 9.23 the Charles Cooper Henderson was launched...
Tilda
Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.32 on the early morning of the 27th of November, 1950, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a vessel was aground half a mile west of Jury's Gap. At 12.42 the life- boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a...
Loch Fada and the L.C.T. Stalker
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — On the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1951, the Southend coastguard reported a message received from the naval authorities that the frigate Loch Fada, towing the L.C.T. Stalker, south-east of Sanda, found...
Smew I
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—About 9.30 on the morning of the 30th of May, 1951, the Coast Life Saving Ser- vice telephoned that a yacht had run on the rocks one and a half miles west of Mine Head. At 9.45 the life-boat H. F. Bailey was...