LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eileen
The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched, on 22nd July, in response to distress signals from the Gull Light-vessel and found the cutter yacht Eileen, of Brightlingsea, stranded on the North Goodwin Sands.
At the time of...
Fishing Boats
At 11.30 A.M. on the 2nd December the S.S.E.
gale increased rapidly until it was blowing a strong gale, and as some of the fishing-boats belonging to Stone- haven were at sea, the Life-boat Alex- ander Slack was launched to...
Don’t Know
At 8.15 A.M. on the 17th July, the cutter Don't Know, of Yarmouth, was observed in distress in the roads abreast the station, and the Life-boat Hugh Taylor was launched.
When she arrived alongside the fishing- boat the...
Hermann
On the morning of the 25th February signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Mid Scroby Sand. A heavy sea was running at the time, and a strong wind was blowing from the N. The Lifeboat Beauchamp was launched at about 3...
Baltic and Dagmar, Mermaid, and Schooner Vilfrid
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 27th March the Life-boats Charles Ingleby and Cyclist were taken out three times with the view of assisting vessels which were in danger in a gale of wind backing from E.N.E. to N.E., accompanied by a very high...
Alfred
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress having been observed at the end of the breakwater, the Life-boat Thomas Fielden was launched at 5 A.M. on the 10th January, in a strong S.W. gale and a heavy sea and found the schooner Alfred stranded on the...
Isabella Helen
ST. PETER'S PORT, GUERNSEY.—While the schooner Isabella Helen, bound from Plymouth for Guernsey with a cargo of limestone and wood, was endeavouring to enter the harbour in a strong gale from E.S.E. on the night of the 14th February, she...
Elsie Annie
At 2 P.M. on 5th May the Coxswain received a telephone message from Wexford to the effect that a small steamer was on Wexford Bar in a very dangerous position, and the Motor Life-boat K.E.C.F. was at once launched to her help. A whole E.N.E....
May
At 12.30 P.M. on the 2nd January a telephone message was received from the Coastguard that a fishing coble was in distress north of Emmanuel Head.
The No. 1 Motor Life-boat Milbufn was launched and found the May of Holy...
The S.S. Co-Operator
At 8 A.M. on the 17th December, 1932, the s.s. Co- operator, of Fenit, while bound, with a crew of three, from Tralee Canal to Fenit, encountered a strong S.W. gale with a rough sea. She could not make headway, and dropped anchor, but it did...