LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mignonette
CAUGHT IN A STRONG EBB Swanage, Dorset.—At 3.23 in the after- noon of the 2nd of September, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 3.35 in a...
The S.S. Etna
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 19th of January, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Etna, of Stock- holm, had wirelessed that she had gone aground on the Skerrinoe Rocks off the east coast...
Seafarer II
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 2.50 on the afternooon of the 30th of November, 1958, the coxswain received a message from the honorary secretary of the Bridlington life-boat station that the fishing boat Seafarer II of Bridlington had broken...
A Fishing Boat
AID FOR ANGLERS Eastbourne, Sussex. At 1.45 p.m. on 2Oth October, 1963, the secretary of the local angling association told the honorary secretary that two of their members aged 78 and 60 were in a motor boat broken down about four miles off...
Helen
ESCORT FOR TANKER At 3.45 a.m. on I2th November, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red rocket and searchlight had been seen from a vessel in the Crosby channel.
At four o'clock the life-boat White...
Galtee
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At four o'clock on the morning of the 18th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that the coaster Galtee with a cargo of barium ore was making water thirty miles south of Hook Head.<...
Kaseen
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 8.35 p.m. on nth August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor launch Kaseen had steering trouble and required assistance in a position four miles east of St....
Porta Aistissa
Taking doctors to a casualty is fairly common - but the crew of New Brighton's Atlantic were called on to ferry local dentist Neil Thomas to the Greek master of the coaster Porta Aistissa on 2 January 1989.
The master...
The Portrush Fishing Boat No. 95
FEBRUARY 1ST. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
Just before mid-day the coastguard reported a fishing boat three miles northnorth- east of Ramore Head, lying broadside on to the seas and apparently in...
Boy's Own
DECEMBER 6TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. In the early morning several fishing cobles had put out to sea, but shortly afterwards the weather began to get bad, and several of the boats on reaching the fishing grounds, turned back. By 1 P.M. a S...