LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Young John
WEXFORD.—In the afternoon of the 10th February, while a strong gale was blowing from the N.W. with a rough sea, signals of distress were shown by the fishing lugger Young John, of St. Ives, which had left Wexford on her homeward journey two...
None (5)
5th February. Signals reported at sea, but search revealed nothing. The signals were probably occulting lights marking the channel in the Ribble estuary.—Rewards, £8 17s. 9d..
Fishing Boats (2)
Arbroath, Angus—On the morning of the 30th January the bar off the harbour entrance was very unsafe, owing to a very heavy easterly swell.
Eight of the local fishing boats had not returned, and the motor life-boat John and...
Clarissa
Appledore, Devon.—On the afternoon of the 19th November a resident at Westward Ho telephoned that the motor trawler Clarissa, of Bideford, was burning red flares a short distance out from Westward Ho. The wind was only light, and the sea was...
J.A.P.
Lowestoft, Suffolk.-—At nine o'clock on the night of the 1st of January, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler appeared to be aground on Newcombe Sands, and the life-boat Michael Stephens was launched at...
Avon
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 3.9 in the afternoon of the 17th of March, 1949, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that the Great Yarmouth steam trawler^won, half a mile off the harbour, had asked for a boat to...
None (3)
Kilmore, Wexford.—At half past two in the afternoon on the 8th of August, 1949, a signal fire was seen on the Great Saltee Island. Two men were known to be camping there and, as a strong south-westerly breeze was blowing with a rough sea and...
Skerryvore
Margate, Kent.—At 12.41 in the afternoon of the 21st of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was aground at Foreness Point, and a second message said that a man could be seen in the water. The life- boat, The Lord...
A Motor Boat belonging to H.M.S. Fitzroy
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 10th May signals of distress were seen by the coastguard, and the reserve life-boat City of Bradford I, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 10.18 A.M. Visibility was poor, and a light E...
Helen Mary
Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.—-During the afternoon of the 7th August, 1937, signals were seen coming from a small motor yacht oft Westward Ho, A moderate N.N. W. breeze was blowing, with a smooth to moderate sea. The Appledore motor...