LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Dinghy
AUGUST 6TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 2.20 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a man adrift in a small dinghy. He had only one oar, and was rapidly being blown out to sea by a strong off-shore wind. At 2.30 the life-boat’s motor...
Folda
NOVEMBER 19TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 10.10 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel near the N.E. Swin Lightship had been attacked by German aeroplanes.
A light S.W. breeze was blowing, with...
H.M.S. Opossum and Gipsy Maid
HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.—About midnight on the 24th March IT. M.S. Opossum, while lying in the harbour at Holyhead, dragged her anchor and collided with the schooner Gipsy Maid. As she fired a rocket and showed signals of distress, the steam Life...
Sydney Dacres
On the 16th February, a boat containing part of the crew of the ship Sydney Dacres, from San Francisco to Liverpool, which had been abandoned at sea, arrived at Knightstown, in the island of Valentia, Co. Kerry. Fourteen of the crew were...
Emily
GBOOMSPOBT, Co. DOWN.—At 1.30 P.M.
on the 12th February in reply to signals the Life-boat Florence proceeded to the aid of the steamer Emily, of Snnderland, which had stranded on the Bridge's Eeef during a moderate...
Spray
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At midnight on the 9th of July, 1956, the life-boatField Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched in a calm sea, with a light breeze blowing, to take two fire service pumps to the auxiliary cutter Spray.
The...
Westlands
MAY 13TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 1.15 in the morning the police reported a vessel was in trouble off Egremont stage, and on enquiry the honorary secretary was told that part of the stage, with a searchlight and soldiers on it, had been...
Barranquilla
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 4.58 p.m. on 28th November, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt from the coastguard that the motor vessel Marchion Enterprise had taken the yacht Barranquilla in tow with a broken propeller shaft coupling...
Yacht Themis
About 7.30 P.M. on Sunday evening the 20th May, the Coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat Kentwell was summoned from Divine Service to a vessel in distress at the back of the Gorton Sands. With all haste the crew were assembled, and the Life-boat...
Lord March
At 5.10 P.M. on the 22nd February, during a W.N.W.
hurricane, the schooner Lord March, of Whitstable, was observed about five miles to the north of Palling, flying signals of distress. With all speed the crew of the No. 2...