LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Betty
MAY 2 5TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
While the auxiliary yacht Betty was on her way from Lynn to Gorleston her engine broke down. A strong S.S.W. wind was blowing, and as she was unable to beat round to Cromer under sail she...
The S.S. Langdon (2)
NORTH DEAL, KINGSDOWNE, BROADSTAIRS and RAMSGATE.—On the 8th April the s.s. Langdon, of London, bound fromBlyth for Dartmouth, with a cargo of coal, stranded on the North Goodwin Sands, in a dangerous position, during a dense fog, at about 4...
The S.S. Baron Douglas, the S.S. Korenica and Rumania (2)
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...
Hawkinge (1)
A LOST PROPELLER Montrose, Angus.—At 6.8 in the evening of the 10th of May, 1947, the Scurdy Ness Lighthouse keeper reported that a motor yacht about a mile off- shore was making distress signals, and the No. 1 motor life-boat The Good...
None (3)
Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1950, a doctor on the island of Eigg telephoned that a woman was seriously ill on Rhum Island, and that no suit- able boat was available in that...
Two Fishing Boats
FEBRUARY 3RD. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
At 10.10 in the morning a report was received from Scurdy Ness that two fishing boats which were at sea would find it dangerous to enter harbour. A northerly wind was blowing, with a heavy...
Will Everard
Cromer, Norfolk.—The No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 11.25 A.M. on the 20th April, as the Haisborough coastguard had telephoned that a sailing barge was aground about one and a half miles south of Haisborough coastguard...
Pilot Me
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the after- noon of the 19th of May, 1955, the fishing boat Pilot Me was at sea in bad weather. There was a heavy breaking swell at the harbour bar, and at 12.34 the No. 1 life-boat J. W.
Archer, on...
The S.S. Explorer, of Leith
Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 10.30 a.m. on 12th March, 1968, a message was received that a member of the crew of the s.s. Explorer of Leith had suffered a heart attack. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 11.30. It...
IRB Saved Two from Cruiser
THE thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum, for the rescue of two men from a cabin cruiser, have been awarded to Robert Chalk, helmsman; Gordon Easton, motor mechanic; and D. Morgan of the Southend-on-Sea IRB.
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