LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hope
LOWESTOFT.—On the 8th October, at about noon, signals of distress were shown by a vessel outside the Holm Sand. A moderate gale from the N. was blowing at the time. The No. 1 Life-boat, Samuel Plimsoll, was launched, and on getting alongside...
Demaris
On the 26th January at 7.35 A.M the Gun- fleet Light-house commenced to fire guns signifying that a vessel was on the sands, and within ten minutes the Life- boat James Stevens No. 14 was on her way to help those on board. The Life- boat had...
Bonnie Lass and Good Design
IN THICK FOG North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At noon on the 16th of July, 1947, with a very thick fog, the Seahouses coast- guard reported that he could hear men shouting, a klaxon sounding and a bell ringing, about a...
Noreg
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—On the morn- ing of the 5th of February, 1948, the Swedish steamer Noreg, of Gothenburg, bound with ore from Spain to Silloth, was at anchor one and a half miles east-north-east of Ramsey. She sig- nalled that she was in...
None (1)
Penlee, Cornwall. — Owing to the prolonged bad weather at the end of January and the beginning of February, it had been impossible to relieve the keepers of the Wolf Rock Lighthouse, and the relief was so long overdue that they had run very...
Dunlin
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.35 in the morning of the 8th of August, 1948, the Trinity House vessel Patricia, which had been sheltering in Lancresse Bay, asked for the help of the life-boat in towing the auxiliary yacht Dunlin, of...
Millicent
On the after- noon of the 19th November the coast- guard telephoned that the local fishing boat Millicent, with three men on board, had been out for twelve hours, and some anxiety was felt for her safety. A moderate north wind was blowing,...
The Faith Star, Progress, Success, Galilee, Provider A, Lead Us,Pilot Me II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.45 on the morning of the 17th ofDecember, 1952, the coastguard reported that bad weather had made conditions danger- ous on the outer harbour bar. As fishing boats were still at sea, the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...
None (3)
Galway Bay.—At 9.45 on the morn- ing of the 23rd of October, 1953, the local doctor asked if the life-boat would take a seventy-four-year-old man, who was seriously ill, to the main- land, as no other boat was available.
At...
Dorothy
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 7.32 on the morning of the 16th of July, 1950, the coastguard pasted on a message from a steamer that the yacht Dorothy, of Colchester, was in need of help, two miles east of the South-west Bawdsey buoy. At 7.53 the No...