LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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FEBRUARY 18TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. During the afternoon the naval authorities asked for the services of the life-boat to destroy a floating mine, and the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched at 3.35 P.M. A coastguard and a naval...
Reliance
APRIL 22ND. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
During the morning eight of the local fishing boats were at sea. A strong N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea.
The boats were running for the shore, when at 10 A.M....
Excel
KINGSDOWNE.—The coxswain of the Life-boat, while on the beach, on the morning of the 9th April, saw a schooner run on the South Sand Head of the Goodwin Sands. He at once summoned the crew of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave, and at 6.15 the...
The Rig Safety Vessel Spearfish
RSV aground 'WE CANNOT hold out much longer—• bumping heavily.' It was 0520 on January 12, just five minutes after extension trawler, now rig safety vessel, Spearfish reported to the Coastguard at Lerwick,Shetland Islands, that she...
The Rowing Boat
Margate, Kent.—At 12.15 on the after- noon of the llth of November, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a smallboat with four men in it was in diffi- culties between one and a half and two miles west of Herne Bay pier.
At...
White Lady
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—A routine exercise had been arranged for two o'clock on the afternoon of the 6th of July, 1955, but just before the life-boat put to sea the coastguard reported that the yacht White Lady, of Southwold, which had a...
A Motor Boat From H.M.S. Conway
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 3.48 in the afternoon of the 14th of June, 1952, the Wallasey Corporation vessel Royal Iris wirelessed that she had seen smoke signals from a motor boat on the Burbo Bank, about t-wo miles west-north-west of Burbo...
Sarah Ann
On the 6th September the fishing boat Sarah Ann, of Hoylake, returning from the fishing grounds, ran aground on the West Hoyle Bank. As the weather was threatening, it was decided to take out the Life-boat Admiral Briggs, and at 7.35 P.M....
Sulaire
Sheringham, Norfolk. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht heading for Sheringham appeared to be in distress in weather which was rapidly deteriorat- ing. There was...
Charles Phillip, of Watchet
The Life-boat Wblverhamp- ton went out on the 20th December, during a heavy gale from,S.W., and took off the captain and 2 men from the smack Charles Philip, of Watchet, which was in a distressed condition in Swansea Eoads, and had hoisted...