LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
White Lady II
On the 26th June the coastguard reported that the motor boat White Lady II, of Torquay, was in difficulties off the Imperial Hotel, Torquay. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. At 2.15 P.M. the motor life-boat George Shee...
Cormorant
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 10.17 P-m- on 3oth June, 1965, the coastguard told the coxswain that they had under observation a yacht which was making no headway. It seemed to have dropped anchor in a dangerous position close to Little...
A Canoe (2)
Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 7.10 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, a tractor driver saw a capsized canoe with two persons clinging to it in broken water one mile south west of the life-boathouse. They were trying to make for the beach but due to the...
Merisia
JANUARY 26TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. The steam trawler Merisia, of Fleetwood, while on her way to the northern fishing grounds, struck the rocks in Bulgham Bay, north of Laxey, in the Isle of Man.
The time was about...
Venus and Herrington
RAMSGATE.—The Bradford Life-boat, and the harbour steam-tug Vulcan, went out at 10 P.M. on the 26th January in response to signals of distress, during a strong S.W. gale, passed through the Cudd Channel and spoke the sloop Venus, of Guernsey...
Claxfield
At 7.30 P.M. on the 14th March the shore attendant telephoned that a pinnace from a Portuguese ship was ashore west of the pier. When the life-boat's crew arrived at the pier head to man the life-boat they found that the pin- nace was...
Fishing Cobles
FISHERMEN'S RELIEF At 1.30 p.m. on i8th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that twelve fishing cobles were at sea in deteriorating weather. There was a strong gale from the south-west with a very rough sea....
George J. Goulandris
JAN. 11TH. - SUNDERLAND, CO. DUR.
HAM. At about 5.30 P.M. a message was received from the South Docks that a vessel close to the shore was burning red flares. A N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and snow showers....
Nordstern
SALCOMBE.—It having been reported on the morning of the 13th January that a steamer was ashore near the Start, the Life-boat Lesty was launched at 9 A.M., and when about half a mile off the Prawle, met the boats of the steamer Nordstern, of...
Bertha
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—Flares in the direction of the "Scroby Elbow" Sand were seen by men on the look out in foggy weather on the morning of the 21st January, and they at once summoned the crew of the Life-boat Covent Garden. At 7...