LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Guiding Light
JANUARY 7TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
At ten o’clock in the morning a telephone message was received from Rush that the motor fishing boat Guiding Light, with a crew of five, had gone out fishing the day...
IRB Launches
There were no services by IRBs in December and January, which resulted in lives being saved, but in February the Whitstable,Kent, IRB went to the assistance of a speedboat.
Whitstable, Kent. At 11.30 a.m. on 2oth February,...
Category: Services
The S.S. Sojourner
At 8.20 A.M. on 30th January a message was received from the Coastguard Station that the East Goodwin Light Vessel had reported a steamer ashore to the N.W. of the Light Vessel. The Motor Life-boat Prudential put out and found the vessel to...
Surodan
At about 5.30 P.M. on 3rd March, information was received by telephone from the Coast- guard that a vessel about two miles to the westward and close in shore was apparently in difficulties. A moderate E. breeze was blowing with a moderate...
Swin
The Cox- swain of the No. 1 Life-boat was rung up on the telephone by the Coastguard at 8.55 P.M. on the 13th February and informed that the St. Nicholas Light- vessel was firing signals for a vessel in distress to the north-westward. He...
Surprise
The schooner Surprise, of Arbroath, whilst bound from Invergordon to Hartlepool with a cargo of timber, stranded near the mouth of the River Ugie on the 31st January. The) Coastguard re- ported it to the coxswain of the Life- boat George...
Lancashire Girl
Selsey, Sussex.—At half past eight on the night of the 14th of December, 1949, the coastguard gave information that the Owers light-vessel had reported a yacht sinking nearby. At 8.40 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a...
A Canoe
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of April, 1957, the Cockburnspath coastguard telephoned a report that a canoe had capsized about four hundred yards from the beach just north of Cock- burnspath. At 2.40 the...
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Rosa Brown
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 27th of October, 1957, the coxswain was told that a small boat was in difficulties close inshore near the Hartlepool breakwater. He went out in the pilot cutter to in- vestigate, but...
Ferdinand Retzlaff
IN COLLISION Dungeness, Kent. At 2.52 a.m. on 4th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the British vessel Cape Nelson had been in collision with the German motor vessel Ferdinand Retzlaff of Bremen, seven miles...