LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Black Maria
Fowey, Cornwall.—On the evening of the 16th of September, 1950, the yacht Black Maria, with no one on board, broke her moorings at Fowey. In a rough sea and a fresh south-westerly gale, she was swept up the harbour, striking the life-boat...
Tapti
On the 17th of January, 1951, the Mallaig life-boat rescued the crew of 62 of the motor vessel Tapti of London.
The Institution awarded its thanks inscribed on vellum to Coxswain Ian B. Watt, and to him and each member of...
Chantecler
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire.—Early in the afternoon of the 16th March the auxiliary yacht Chantecler, of Lytham, broke away from her moorings. A strong east breeze was blowing, with amoderate sea. As no one was on board the yacht, the motor...
Myrtle
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—On the morning of the 19th September the Davaar lightkeeper reported that a dinghy with two men on board, belonging to the motor yacht Myrtle, was missing. The Myrtle was on a pleasure trip hunting basking sharks....
Maurita, of Lancaster
Blackpool, Lancashire.—At 10.35 P.M.
on the llth December, 1937, the proprietor of an hotel on the south shore reported to the coxswain that a vessel off the shore, about a mile south of the south pier, was sending up...
A Motor Fishing Boat
Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—At 8 P.M.
on the 12th January, 1938, it was reported that one of the local motor fishing boats was in danger owing to a breakdown of her engine. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea....
Chieftain
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—During the afternoon of the 12th February, 1938, the barge Chieftain, of London, bound with a cargo of wheat for Ipswich, was overtaken by bad weather when off Walton-on-the-Naze. She had two men and a woman on...
Taffy
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.45 P.M. on the 29th July, 1938, the nightwatchman at St. Sampson's Harbour received a message, flashed in morse from the Great Western Railwaysteamer Sambur, that shouts for help had been heard from a boat...
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St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 8.5 on the morning of the 5th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a man in the Smalls lighthouse was sick and asked if the life-boat would take him ashore. At 8.30 the life-boat...
Notre Dame de Fatima
On the 8th of November, 1956, the St. David's life-boat was launched to help the French trawler Notre Dame de Fatima, which was in distress three miles south-west of Skokholm light.
The life-boat rescued the trawler'...