LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ilmatar
LYDD, DUNGENESS.—At 2 A.M. on the 18th May, the Russian barque Ilmatar got ashore off Dungeness, during a fresh gale at E.N.E., a heavy sea running. The Lifeboats Lifeboats on this part of the coast are mainly dependent on the coastguardmen...
Fishing Boats
— Several fishing boats were making for the harbour during a S.
wind, on the morning of the 18th May, and as a very heavy sea was breaking across the entrance, it was evident that the boats would encounter some amount of...
Levrette
PEMBREY, S. WALES.—On the 9th February, the Life-boat Stanton Meyrick of Pimlico proceeded to the aid of the brigantine Levrette, of St. Malo, which was lying at anchor near the Lynch. Sands with, a signal of distress flying. On arriving at...
Red Snapper
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—Shortly after two o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1952, the coastguard re- ported that the motor trawler Red Snapper, of Lowestoft, was aground on the Newcombe Sands three-quarters of a mile...
A Sailing Boat
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 5.46 on the evening of the 8th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small sailing boat had capsized a mile off Lancing, and that four people had been in the water for about twenty...
De Ruyter
At 10.57 a.m. on I5th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Belgian trawler De Ruyter of Zeebrugge was in need of assistance in St. Ives Bay. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando, and Eva Child was launched at 11...
Philomena
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 4.58 on the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1957, the coastguard told the coxswain that a dinghy had capsized two hundred yards off shore opposite the Grand Hotel at Frinton. The life- boat Edian Courtauld put...
Annie Melling
The Coastguard officer reported at 9.15 j A.M. on the 6th May that there was a ! vessel on the Long Bank signalling for immediate assistance. The assembly signal was fired and the Life-boat Tom ' and Jennie despatched. There...
None (2)
Aith, Shetlands.-—On the 9th of Jan- uary, 1956, the doctor at Walls asked if the life-boat would take him and a relieving nurse to Foula, because con- tinuous bad weather had isolated the island for nearly a month and at least two people...
Craddock
Cromer, Norfolk. At 10.14 on the night of the 11th of July, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been observed six to seven miles east-south-east of the Newarp lightvessel. The no. 1 life-boat Henry...