LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summity
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 5.35 on the evening of the 3rd of November, 1953, a shipping company at Par reported that they had received a message that the motor ship Summity, of London, had asked for help as she had broken down half a mile...
Thrifty
Dover, Kent.-—At 3.15 in the morning of the 23rd of November, 1949, Lloyd's signal station reported a vessel stranded on the blockships at the western en- trance to the harbour. At 3.30 the life-boat Southern Africa left her moor- ings...
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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...
Fishing Boats
Sheringham, Norfolk. — During the morning of the 7th of May, 1951, five local fishing boats put out; and as one of them was going back the weather got worse. The sea was also getting stronger and the wind increased. So, as one of the four...
Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.50 on the night of the 20th of April, 1948, the local motor fishing boat Provider, which had put out earlier to attend to crab pots, wirelessed for the life-boat.
The No. 2. pulling and sailing...
Valentia
Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 27th August, 1961, one of the yachts competing in a regatta capsized. The two people on board, a man and a woman, clung to the sub- merged boat. A near gale was blowing from the south-west...
Meda II
PINNED TO PIER At 12.12 p.m. on i6th September, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Meda II was on a lee shore in a moderate sea and gale force south-easterly wind. The yacht was pinned to the north pier and...
A Rowing Boat
Aberdeen. At 10.21 p.m. on 4th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small rowing boat with a crew of two appeared to be in distress about half a mile east of Girdleness lighthouse.
The tide was at...
Belinda
Ramsgate, Kent. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 27th of September, 1958, the watchman at the east pier informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had broken down a mile and a half off Ramsgate. At 1.4 the life-boat Michael and Lily...
The Gratitude and Evelyn and Margaret
APRIL 4TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
During the early afternoon a heavy ground swell was running from the north-east. Incoming fishing cobles reported that the seas were growing, with broken water at the harbour entrance. A...