LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Dover motor life-boat and the ss. Ardgantock with a heavy list. (See next page.). - View image in PDF

SINCE the first experiments with motor life-boats in 1904, the Institution has used petrol engines. Diesel engines, although they have important advan- tages have, until recently, not been possible, because, with their low speed of...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 2 P.M.

on the 23rd January, 1939, a gale was blowing from the N.N.W. with a heavy sea. The motor fishing boat Pilot Me was at sea and as she did not return the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann...

Broughty'[Ferry, Angus.—7th September, 193'J. Shortly after 10 F.M.information was received that an aircraft had dived into the sea three miles N.E. of the North Carr Lightvessel.

The life-boat found nothing, spoke...

BOY TRAPPED ON A CLIFF Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 9.5 in the evening of February 22nd, 1947, the police telephoned" that a boy was stranded on the cliff-face north of Aberystwyth and that the National Fire Service had failed to find...

Filey, Yorkshire.—At 8.50 on the morning of the 15th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to pass on a radio message from a steamer. This said that the fishing coble Margaret and James, of Scarborough, was six miles north-north-east of...

Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of January, 1954.

two local fishing boats were still at sea in worsening weather, and at four o'clock the life-boat E.C.J.K. was launched. There was a heavy sea,...

Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 3rd of March, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the fishing boat Primrose, which had a crew of four, was two hours overdue.

At 1.20 the life-boat George and Sarah...