LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht
16th June. A yacht capsized during a race, but another yacht picked up the crew. Mr.
David Plunket put off from the shore in a motor boat and quickly brought the rescued men ashore. A letter of thanks was sent to...
The R.A.F. High Speed Launch 170
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 8.53 at night the coastguard reported that the R.A.F. high speed launch 170 was ashore on the rocks under Buckie coastguard station. A strong squally W.N.W. wind was blowing, with a...
The Motor Fishing Boats Laura and Prospector
JAN. 9TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN.
Early in the afternoon a man reported that his son and two other men who had gone out in the motor fishing boat Laura to shoot cod lines had not returned when...
The S.S. Sudsee
Ramsgate, Kent.—During the morning of the 10th April the Brake lightvessel, on the Goodwin Sands, reported, through the coastguard, that a steamer was aground about a mile and a half E.
half S. from her. A moderate...
A Walrus Aeroplane
JULY 30TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 6.1 P.M. the flag officer in charge at Great Yarmouth telephoned, through the Cromer coastguard, asking that the life-boat should be sent to help a Walrus aeroplane which had come down in the sea about six...
A Coaster
Hastings, Sussex - At 6.22 p.m. on 1 8th June, 1967, it was reported that coaster had engine trouble about four miles south of Hastings. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 6.51 in light south easterly wind and a smooth sea.
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The S.S. Deloraine
On the 29th January a gang of eight men, for salvage purposes, boarded the s.s. Delo- raine, of Glasgow, which stranded off Ballantrae in a blizzard at the end of December. The weather at the time was fine, but the W.N.W. wind gradu- ally...
H.M.S. Musketeer and Saucy
Barrow, Lancashire.—At three o'clock in the morning, on the 26th of Septem- ber, 1950, a message was received from the Walney coastguard, that H.M.S.
Musketeer, which was being towed to Liverpool by the tug Saucy, for a...
The S.S. Iris
MARCH 18TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 6.14 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities at Holyhead, through the coastguard, that a vessel was on fire. A later message gave her position as 19 miles W.S.W.
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Jenny Jones of Barmouth
On the 24th March, the smack Jenny Jones, of Barmouth, was observed in a dangerous posi- tion, with signals of distress flying, in Porth- dinllaen Bay, during a gale of wind from N.W. The Cotton Sheppard life-boat was quickly launched, and...