LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Roma
Selsey, Sussex.—At 1.30 P.M. on the 9th April the coastguard reported that a motor boat appeared to have broken down two miles S.E. of the coastguard look-out and was drifting west. She was not making signals of distress. At 5.47 P.M. she...
A Dinghy (3)
Torbay, Devon. At 1.48 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1959, the police at Torquay told the honorary secretary that a dinghy was in difficulties off Maidencombe beach. Her occu- pants were waving for help, and at 1.55 the life-boat...
Arcadia and the S.S. Eastwood
JANUARY 9TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK, A N D S K E G N E S S L I N C O L N S H I R E .
Information was received at Wells from the coastguard at about 4.48 PM. that a tug was showing flares off Scolt Head. A strong northerly wind...
The Plymouth Fishing Boat Farsund
Engine Trouble AN anticipatory message to the honorary secretary of the Plymouth lifeboat station at 7.56 p.m. on March 14 that the Plymouth fishing boat Farsund was overdue from a fishing trip to the Eddystone lighthouse area led to an...
Margaret and James
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 10th of January, 1957, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Margaret and James was at sea in very bad weather. At 12.5 the life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted was...
Musketier
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 8.55 on the morning of the 8th of September, 1957, Portpatrick radio reported that the Dutch vessel Muske- tier had lost her propeller near Tuskar Rock and needed help. The life-boat John R. Webb, on...
Sethon
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 7.50 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1958, a message was received from the coast- guard that the steam trawler Sethon of Fleetwood was in difficulties at Church Bay, Rathlin. At 8.10 the life-boat Lady Scott...
None (7)
Barra Island, Hebrides. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 30th of May, 1958, a local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a patient to hospital in South Uist. The patient, who had a haemorrhage, was given a blood...
Seabreeze
ANOTHER FISHING BOAT TOWED IN New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 9.45 on the night of the 21st of October, 1947, the coastguard reported a vessel burning signals of distress three miles to the north of Aberayron. The pulli ng and sailing life-boat...
Pinnace of the Sea Cadets
Troon, Ayrshire. — At 6.30 in the evening of the 2nd of May, 1948, the pilot house telephoned that the steam pinnace of the Sea Cadets appeared to have broken down and was drifting towards the Black Rocks. The motor life-boat Sir...