LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Long Wolf
On the after- noon of the 8th July the motor boat Lone Wolf, on a pleasure cruise from Portrush to Skerries, with a crew of three and ten passengers, got into difficulties. Her propeller had fouled and she began to drift out to sea. A strong...
Snapper
Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset.—At about noon on the 22nd January, 1939, information was received through the coastguard that the motor launch Snapper, which was bound from Hamworthy to Southampton, was in diffi-culties off Boscombe Pier. A S...
Albion
Blackpool, Lancashire.—At 1.30 P.M.
on the 26th October, 1939, the coxswain telephoned that he had had a fishing boat under observation since noon.
She was trying to beat up from about three miles south of...
Harvester
Wells, Norfolk.—At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 22nd of March, 1956, the life-boat second coxswain received a report that the local motor fishing boat Harvester was overdue with a crew of two. At four o'clock the life- boat Cecil Paine...
Carbery Lass
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—On the after- noon of the 23rd of May, 1956, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local ftshingboat CarberyLass, which was long overdue. The life-boat John R. Webb, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at...
Forella
Poole, Dorset. At 12.55 on the after- noon of the 17th of July, 1960, the police informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was considerably overdue from a fishing trip and that the crew's relatives were becoming...
Armen
Dover, Kent. — At 11.50 on the morning of the 13th of August, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard reported that the German tanker Wilhelmina Ess- berger had requested the help of the life-boat to land survivors from the French yacht Armen. Her...
Morning Star
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 10.42 on the morning of the 18th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the Worthing beach inspector had reported a small yacht apparently in trouble off Splash Point, Lancing.
The...
Fishing Boats (1)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 31st of August, 1956, there was a heavy sea on the harbour bar. Local fishing boats and a fishing fleet from Scotland were at sea. Because of the conditions it was decided to launch the no. 1...
A Boat (2)
Dover, Kent.—At 1.12 on the aftefc noon of the 19th of May, 1957, the Sandgate coastguard reported that the South Goodwin lightvessel hadreported a boat drifting three quarters of a mile north-north-west of the lightvessel. At 1.30 the...