LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ability
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—At 3.15 on the morning of the 30th of November, 1954, the coastguard reported that a vessel east of Milford Docks was drag- ging her anchors and sounding distress signals on her siren. At 3.50 the life- boat Elizabeth...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 12.32 on the afternoon of the 28th of March, 1959, the honorary secretary was in- formed that a boat was being blown off shore one mile east of the life- boathouse. At 12.40 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was...
Happy Home, Florence and Ross Gill
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 8.15 on the evening of the 9th of February, 1953, the coxswain learned from the skipper of the fishing boat Happy Home that the motor fishing drifter Florence, of Glandore, was burning flares south- east of...
Sultan & Pet
About 3.30 P.M. on the 6th March a ketch was seen trying to beat up for Tenby Roads, but when about three-and-a-half miles off, her canvas was all blown away.
There was a whole N.N.W. gale at the time and the sea was very...
Our Boys
At 1.30 A.M.
on the 6th May a sailing trawler was observed on the North Bank, and the No. 2 Life-boat Leicester was launched to her assistance. She stood by the vessel until she commenced to break up ; the crew of four...
Linda
Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1960, when the life-boat crew were in the boathouse after an exercise, the coxswain received a report from the owner of the fishing boat Linda that he had lent the boat to...
Catherine
KUmore, Co., Wexford —At 6.25 in the evening, on the 27th of May, 1950, the motor fishing boat Catherine, of Dunmore East, with a crew of two was seen flying distress signals three miles east-south-east of the piers. At 6.42 the life-boat...
Star of Hope
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 7.15 on the evening of the 13th December, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the drifter Star of Hope was stranded on the Scroby Sands and was asking for help. There was a...
A Yacht (1)
Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of August, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a yacht was dismasted and in difficulties off Avon- wen beach. The South Caernarvon- shire Yacht...
Neptunia
Torbay, Devon.—At 11.20 on the night of the 16th of February, 1955, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a woman had reported that her husband had gone to Dartmouth with a friend to fetch the 24-feet motor boat Nep- tunia to Torquay. They...