LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lindfar and Catherine
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 11.30 A.M. on the 3rd February the fishing boats Lindfar and Catherine, of Eyemouth, were seen making for the harbour. A moderate to whole northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea,and heavy snow...
Holba
Dover, Kent.—At 5.50 in the after- noon on the 10th of December, 1949, the life-boat bowman picked up a wireless message. It said that the trawler Holba, of London, with a crew of two, had been disabled when four miles south-west of...
Doreen
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.50 on the night of the 27th of April, 1950, lights, believed to be flares, were seen from the signal station. At 10.15 the police confirmed seeing them from St.
Martin's Point. At 10.45...
None
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 4.35 in the afternoon, on the 2nd of July, 1950, the Hayle police reported a man outside the breakers off Gwithian beach, a bather, missing. At 4.58 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched,...
Walker II
Margate, Kent.—At 12.50 in the after- noon, on the 3rd of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the local pilot boat Walker II had broken down and was drifting on to the Nayland Rocks. Two motor boats had gone to her help, but could not...
None (2)
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 11.30 in the morning of the 4th of January, 1952, the Kerry County Council asked if the life-boat would take food and medical supplies to the Great Blasket Island as no other boat had been able to call there for a...
None (3)
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 9.22 in the morning of the 6th of January,1952, the Scilly Islands medical officer telephoned that a patient at St. Mary's needed an immediate operation and, owing to fog, the surgeon and his staff could not fly...
An Aeroplane
Sheringbam, Norfolk.—On the 27th March, at the request of the Chief Constable of Bedfordshire, the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary put out to search for the Duchess of Bedford who, some days before, had set out on a short trip by...
Galilee and Venus
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 9 A.M.
on the 20th August the motor fishing boats Galilee and Venus were expected in from fishing. The sea had gr.own rapidly during the morning, and was then breaking heavily outside' the...
Leader
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 4.30 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, a man telephoned the coxswain to say that he had seen red flares out to sea.
The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched in a very rough sea with a strong...