LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Linnet and Girl Pat
Cromarty.—During the morning of the 21st December, 1937, the Helmsdale coastguard reported that they were trying to locate two small Helmsdale fishing boats, Linnet and Girl Pat, which had left Loch Fleet for Helmsdale at about 4 P.M. the...
Mizpah and Silver Lane
Early on the morning of the 10th March three local motor fishing cobles put to sea to haul crab pots. The wind was squally from the S.E., and the sea was rough. The weather continued to grow worse, with heavy rain showers. At 10.30 A.M. the...
Kingfisher and Just Reward
The life- boat crew kept a watch on the morning of the 4th November, as the local fishing cobles Kingfisher and Just Reward were at sea, an east gale had sprung up and the sea was making. At 12.30 P.M. the sea was very rough and the second...
Margaret and James
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 10th of January, 1957, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Margaret and James was at sea in very bad weather. At 12.5 the life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted was...
Kurt Arlt and Petrel
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.36 on the morning of the 25th of December, 1957, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that a collision had occurred near the south- east Girdler buoy between the motor vessel Kurt Arlt,...
Boy Pat and Nellie
Islay, Inner Hebrides, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of the 13th of August, 1948, the Kil- choman coastguard telephoned that a vessel about three miles north-north- west of Coul Point had made flares, and at 6.15 the...
Hilda, Reliance and Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—Some of the local motor fishing boats were caught at sea by bad weather on the 2nd January, 1939. A N.E. breeze wasblowing, with a rough sea. The Eagle came in and reported that the boats still at sea were in danger...
Dunaine and Carmel
TUG SAVED RHYL, Flintshire, life-boat was told on 28th June, 1971, that a vessel was in difficulties off Llandulas and in danger of being washed ashore.
The life-boat Har Lil was launched at 12.35 p.m.
in...
Perseverence and Lugger
Two yachts in force 10 WHEN, at 2327 on September 20, 1973, the honorary secretary of Shoreham, Sussex, was told by the Coastguard that a yacht was in distress 20 miles south of Shoreham, the maroons were fired and Dorothy and Philip...
Rosemary, Gratitude and Betty
Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 13th of November,1959, the weather grew rapidly worse, and at 8.15 the life-boat J. G. Graves of Sheffield was launched as there were several local fishing cobles at sea.
There...