LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Catarina
ILFRACOMBE.—On the morning of the 29th December, the Go-Operator No. 2 Life-boat was launched, a message having been received at about half-past nine stating that a vessel, which proved to be the barque Catarina, of Savona, was in distress...
Mary and Martha
While a strong gale was blowing from the S., accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the night of the 5th October, signals of distress were shown by the schooner Mary and Martha, bound from Queensferry for Dundalk, laden with bricks, which had...
Emma
On 4th December at 12.30 P.M. the Motor Life- boat Mary Scott was launched to the help of the motor fishing boat Emma, of Southwold, with three men on board, which had been seen by the Coastguard to be flying a distress signal about one mile...
A Diving Boat
While the watchman was on duty on the morning of the 7th April, during a W.N.W. gale, with a very heavy sea, a diving boat belonging to the Railway Company was seen to part from her moorings at 10.30 A.M. She drifted out to sea and a small...
Armana
The trawler Armana, of Fleetwood, was going out to the fishing grounds on the llth January, when she ran aground .on a submerged rock. The weather was fine and there was no wind, but the motor life-boat Lloyd's was launched at 1.45 P.M.,...
Marie Louise
HAYLING ISLAND. — The Life-boat Charlie and Adrian was launched at 5.50 A.M., on the 14th January, in response to signals of distress from the brigantine Marie Louise, winch, while on a voyage from Falmouth to Hamburg with a cargo of logwood...
Millom Castle
About 2.30 in the morning of the 15th March, ! when a whole gale from S. was raging, the Life-boat, William and Mary Devey, was launched in response to signals of I distress from the schooner Millom Castle.
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Progress and Launch Out
Scarborough, Yorkshire On the afternoon of the 24th February several local fishing boats were at sea. Theweather got bad and all except the Launch Out and Progress returned to harbour. By 4 P.M. conditions were very bad, and a big sea was...
None
Longhope, Orkney*. — On the afternoon of the 29th March a doctor asked for the life-boat to take a woman patient, who was suffering from appendicitis, to Scapa for an immediate operation. A strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and...
A Raft
Appledore, Devon.—At 3.20 in the afternoon on the llth of June, 1950, the Westward Ho! coastguard tele- phoned that a raft, with two men aboard who could not swim, was adrift and being carried out to sea. Twenty minutes later the life-boat...