LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Boats Comfort, Enterprise, Widgeon and Rosa
On the morning of the 26th September a strong south- erly breeze increased to a whole gale, making the sea very heavy at the harbour bar. The local motor fishing boats Comfort, Enterprise, Widgeon and Rosa were at sea, and the motor life-...
Little Old Lady
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.10 in the morning of the 2nd of February, 1950, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare and flying a large ensign two miles south of the Gap. Most of the life- boatmen were...
A Rubber Dinghy
Margate, Kent.—At 4.5 in the after- noon of the 2nd of April, 1949, the coastguard reported that two boys in a rubber dinghy were going round in circles three-quarters of a mile off Cliftonville. At 4.58 they telephoned that the boys were...
Brali
Walmer, Kent.—At 1.3 in the after- noon of the 14th of April, 1949, the Deal coastguard telephoned a report from North Foreland Radio Station that the motor tanker Brali, of Oslo, bound for Bergen, from Abadan, had gone aground on the...
Random Harvest
Montrose, Angus. During the after- noon of the llth of September, 1959, reports reached Montrose that the fishing boat Random Harvest had been in collision and was being escorted into harbour by the Aberdeen trawler Strathlossie. At 4.40 it...
Lucy
Selsey, Sussex. At 12.15 on the after- noon of the 21st of July, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that they were keeping the yacht Lucy, which appeared to have engine trouble, under observation. A fishing vessel was...
A Fishing Boat
Torbay, Devon. At 2.58 on the after- noon of the 16th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was flying distress flags two miles south-south-east of Berry Head. There was a moderate north-westerly...
Gwen
At 2.20 p.m. on 3rd December, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Gwen with two men on board, which had sailed from Maryport at noon the previous day bound for Workington, had not arrived. At 2.30...
A Rowing Boat
Beaumaris, Anglesey. On the morn- ing of the 29th of January, 1958, the coxswain saw a rowing boat with three men on board in difficulties. They had gone out to the sandbanks off the mouth of the River Ogwen to collect mussels. With the...
Rachel and Fishing Boats
FISHING BOAT ESCORTED OVER BAR Wbitby, Yorkshire. At 9.10 on the morning of the 16th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the weather was likely to become worse, and that an easterly gale was forecast as...