LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steam Drifter
25th July. A steam drifter stranded near Duncansby Head, but was helped by another drifter.—Rewards, £4 19s. Qd..
A Yacht
— 22nd April. A yacht had been reported in distress, but she was picked up by a steamer.—Rewards, £3 15s..
A Steamer
23rd August. A steamer burst a steam- pipe, but another steamer near-by took her in tow.—Rewards, £18 5,9. 6d..
A Vessel
8th June. A vessel had had engine trouble, but had been picked up by a tug.—Rewards, £23 17s..
A Sailing Dinghy
Eastbourne, Sussex.—26th April. A sailing dinghy had capsized, but the crew were rescued by a small boat.— Rewards, £9 15s. 6d..
Linda Anne
EXHAUSTED MEN RESCUED FROM FISHING BOAT Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 8.12 on the evening of the 23rd June, 1963, the Tynemouth coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a resident at Whitley Bay had reported red flares about three...
Ruby
At about 7.30 A.M., on the 7th October, the Life-boat Coxswain, who was on the look-out, observed a yacht near the Middle Patch buoy, about four miles distant, showing signals of distress. He immediately summoned his crew, and the Life- boat...
Gorleston
— On 7th December, with a N.W. breeze blowing and a heavy ground swell on the sands, the Dutch steamer Friesland, belonging to Rotterdam, stranded on the east side of the Scroby Sands, west of the Bell Buoy. She was on her way, light, from...
Bagatelle
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 8.45 on the evening of the 6th of August, 1955, a fisherman came in from sea in his fishing boat and brought ashore a woman from the yacht Bagatelle, of Ipswich. She stated that the yacht had run ashore on...
Vivian
Ifracombe, Devonshire.—At 1.35 P.M.
on the 8th February the coastguard at Widmouth, Hfracombe, reported that a motor fishing boat was at sea, and had passed out of his sight. It was found that she was the local boat Vivian...