LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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...
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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...
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...
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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.<...