LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Cutter from H.M.S. Marlborough
A FORTNIGHT after her Inaugural Ceremony the new Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued her first lives.
On 28th September last, the 25,000- ton battle-ship H.M.S. Marlboroitgh was at anchor in Thurso Bay. She sent off a cutter to...
Morning Star
At about 4: P.M. on 10th February informa- tion was received from fishermen that the motor fishing boat Morning Star, with a crew of three on board, including John Campbell, the Life-boat Coxswain, was two hours overdue. A strong...
New Hope, of Maldon
On the even- ing of the 29th October, a telephone message was received from the pierhead that flares could be seen west of the pier. A whole W. gale was blowing with a very heavy sea and rain. The Motor Life-boat Greater London put out at...
Northern Coast, of Liverpool
Port Askaig, Islay— At 11 P.M. on the 5th December, during the height of a northerly gale, a steamer, bound north, stopped and signalled by morse to the life-boat station that a doctor was wanted. The weather was very cold, with heavy snow...
Elmo
NO PETROL Hartlepool, Co. Durham. — At nine o'clock on the night of the 2nd of December, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that a small boat was continu- ously flashing a light about one mile north-north-east of the lighthouse. A small...
None
Penlee, Cornwall. — At 12.40 in the afternoon of the 7th of June, 1948, the Porthleven coastguard telephoned that a man was in the sea, shouting for help, eight hundred yards east of Porthleven pier. The motor life-boat W. and...
Ingerois
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. — At 2.15 in the afternoon of the 29th of June, 1949, the coastguard reported that a vessel, two miles east of Orfordness, and going north, was flying a signal that an acci- dent had occurred and a doctor was required....
Viva
St. Helier, Jersey.—At 10.45 on the night of the 1st of August, 1949, the harbour office reported that a resident of Bel Royal had seen a rocket off St.
Aubins, and at 11.20 the life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at...
Eve
Tynemoutb, Northumberland.—At 7.12 in the evening of the 20th of Sep- tember, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing yacht, then two miles to the south-east, was drifting towards Frenchman's Point. The life-boat Tynesider, the...
Marc Archille
Whitehills, Banffshire.—At 1.12 P.M.
on the 28th January the coastguard telephoned that a foreign trawler about one and a half miles N.E. of the coastguard station was making distress signals on her siren. A very strong S.E...