LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Windspiel
Dover, Kent.—In the early morning of 30th May, 1938, the motor'life-boat Sir William Hillary escorted in the German yacht Windspid, of Hamburg. (A full account appears on page 538).
Spray
Selsey, Sussex.—At 9.20 in the morn- ing of the 13th of June, 1952, a life- boatman who had returned from fishing, reported a yacht aground north of Looe Channel. The sea was calm, the southerly breeze light, but there was a thick fog. The...
None (4)
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—On the 23rd of June, 1952, a party of twenty-one people, belonging to Skibbereen, left Baltimore for Cape Clear Island eight miles from the mainland, but did not arrive back in the evening when expected. Their friends...
Betty, Rosemary and Rachel
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 27th of April, 1953, the fishing cobles Betty, Rosemary, and Rachel, of Scarborough, were at sea in bad weather, and the weather was becoming worse. About 7.35 one of them was seen...
Fairway
Fleetwood, Lancashire. — At seven o'clock on the evening of the 9th of September, 1953, a local trawler company reported that the steam trawler Fairway, of Hull, had an injured man on board who was in urgent need of medical attention.<...
Sea Gipsy
Dover, Kent.— At 11.9 on the morn- ing of the 27th of August, 1950, the Sandgate coastguard said that a vessel at sea had informed him, through Niton Radio, that the motor launch Sea Gipsy, bound for Dover from Calais, was in difficulties...
Miranda
Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 2.5 in the afternoon, on the 22nd of September, 1950, a fisherman reported that a yacht was in difficulties. She had lost her mainsail, and was close inshore, going towards Weybourne. Then she altered course and...
Pauline
Howth, Co. Dublin.—Two yachts were overdue from a local yacht race on the 17th of June, 1951. A message was received that one of them had been in trouble and was being towed by the other, so the life-boat decided to put out. At 4.30 that...
Thais (1)
Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.10 P.M. on the 6thAugust, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station at Swanage that a sailing yacht had capsized off Christchurch Ledge Buoy, and the motor lifeboat Thomas Markby...
An Aeroplane (10)
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—18th September, 1939. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by the coastguard as her services were not needed.— Rewards, £12 5s..