LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ocean Pride
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—While the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was at sea on the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1938, for her monthly exercise, she received a signal from the coastguard that a yacht was in a dangerous position...
Gareen Junior
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1954, the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched on exercise, with the second coxswain in charge, to stand by yachts off Penarth, which were taking...
Will Everard (1)
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 5th of December, 1955, a man reported that the barge Will Everard, of London, which had a crew of four, had run ashore near Galloways.
At 11.25 the life-boat Charles Cooper...
Success, Provider A and Pilot Me II
Whit by, Yorkshire.—About ten o'clock in the morning, on the 13th of March, 1950, the No. 1 life-boat crew assembled as three fishing vessels were approaching the harbour in bad weather. At 10.50 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
A Fourteen-Feet Flat-Bottomed Boat
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 5.30 in the evening, on the 31st of May, 1950, in calm weather, the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched for exercise with the honorary secretary, Mr. C. M.
Clifford Gibbons, and the district...
Aphrodite
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 7.44 on the night of the 8th of August, 1951, the Shoreham coastguard tele- phoned that a small ship was on fire one mile south-east of Shoreham Harbour.
At 7.59 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and...
Albatross
Walmer, Kent.—At 5.10 on the morning of the 26th of August, 1951, the Deal Coastguard telephoned he had seen two red flares four miles south-by- east of the coastguard station. At 5.30 the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2, was...
Tom Boy
Hythe, Kent.—At 10.50 A.M. on the 2nd August it was reported verbally to the coxswain that a flare had been seen from a yacht. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat The Viscountess Wakefield was launched at...
A Motor Boat from H.M.S. Lucia
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the morning of the 12th November a motor boat from H.M.S. Lucia ran aground on the south end of the northern arm of the breakwater at Portland harbour. Shewas reported by the Royal Naval Police at Bincleaves, and the...
Karmt
Port Askaig, Islay.—On the afternoon of the 31st December the Oban coastguard telegraphed that an aircraft had reported a ship drifting eastward through the Gulf of Corrievreckan, which is north of Jura Island. A strong S.W. breeze was...