LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht (1)
The third call came about 7 A.M., when it was reported that a yacht had been seen drifting up the Solent.
The wind was still blowing a strong gale, at this time from the W.S.W., and the sea was rough. The motor life-boat...
Primrose
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—Owing to sudden dense fog and heavy rain on the 30th January the Clogher Head fishing fleet, which was about eleven miles N.E. of Port Oriel, made for home.
All boats except the Primrose, with the...
F.L.B., of Blyth
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—On the afternoon of the 19th June the coastguard reported that a small yacht was aground on the Outer Knock, about three miles S. by W. of the pier, but was not in immediate danger. Later on a message was received...
Fishing Boats (2)
Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— Early in the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, fourteen local fishing cobles put out from Filey. The wind got up suddenly, and at 7.15 a whole S. gale was blowing, with arough sea and torrential rain....
Rescue of a Deer
IN the middle of June, 1939, a roe deer crossed the golf course opposite Aber- deen harbour, entered the harbour channel, and swam out to sea. Cox- swain Thomas Sinclair (who has twice won the Institution's silver medal for gallantry and...
Category: Articles
Sprite
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — On 22nd April, 1939, the coastguard kept a yacht under observation for some hours. The sea was very heavy, a N.W. gale was blowing, and it was decided to send out help. At 2.25 P.M. the motor lifeboat Edward Z....
None (8)
Aith, Shetland. — At 12.30 A.M. on Christmas Day, 1937, a doctor telephoned that he had been asked to go tothe outlying island of Foula, as the inhabitants were in the grip of an epidemic of influenza, one person being critically ill, and...
Two Meteor Aeroplanes (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk. — At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 20th of May, 1952, the Gorleston coastguard tele- phoned a report from the R.A.F.
station at Uxbridge that two Meteor aeroplanes had...
Loch Lomond
North Pier L.S.A., Torry L.S.A. and the Aberdeen life-boat.—At 10.33 on the morning of the 23rd of October, 1952, the Assistant Harbour Master reported that the steam trawler Loch Lomond, of Aberdeen, was in distress in the Navigation...
Captain Andrew
In very heavy weather on the night of the 24th-25th of November, 1951, the Walmer life-boat gave help to a steamer on the Goodwin Sands. A full account of this service appears on page 288..