LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Effigo
PAKEFIELD.—The Life-boat Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, put off on the 22nd October to the assistance of the schooner Effigo, of Goole, which had stranded on the Newcome Sand during a strong E.
breeze. The vessel had floated...
Alnwick
PWLLHELI, CARNARVONSHIRE. — A schooner was seen to be dragging her anchors and drifting rapidly towards St.
Patrick's Causeway, while a moderate gale was blowing from the N.W., with terrific squalls and a heavy sea, on...
Sarah Latham
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 4.30 in the morning of the 19th of July, 1948, the Castletown coastguard telephoned that the keeper at Langness Point Light had reported red flares from a small vessel, and the motor life-boat Sir Heath...
Primula
Great Yarmouth and Gorlestcn, Norfolk.—At 2.48 on the morning of the 19th of October, 1955, the Gorles- ton coastguard rang up to say that a drifter had gone aground one hundred yards north of the harbour entrance, and that she was burning...
Fleetwing
Shortly after noon on the 28th January the brig Fleetwing, of Carnarvonshire, whilst bound to King's Lynn, was observed to miss stays when close to the Scroby sands and let go her anchors. As it was thought that the vessel was on the...
Ardente
— The Life - boat Frien Walch was launched in a heavy S.E. gale on the afternoon of the llth December to a French schooner, which was dragging her anchor and drifting ashore in Weymouth Bay. A tug endeavoured to tow the Life-boat to the...
A Sailing Yacht
Dover, Kent. — About 4.15 on the afternoon of the 19th of July, 1953, the harbour board gateman at the Eastern Docks reported that a small sailing yacht with a crew of four had capsized at the eastern end of the...
Queen Catherine
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.54 on the evening of the 4th of August, 1956, theShoreham coastguard reported that the Royal Sovereign lightvessel had informed him that a small yacht along- side her was in difficulty and needed a tow to Newhaven....
Elizabeth
Howth, Co. Dublin. At 11.15 on the morning of the 4th of August, 1958, the honorary secretary saw the yacht Elizabeth capsize during a yacht race.
The life-boat R.P.L. put out at 11.20 in a choppy sea. A westerly wind of...
Bon Pasteur
At 2 a.m. on 10th February, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a French trawler was aground on the North Goodwin Sands. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 2.17 in a light north easterly breeze...