LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Washington
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.36 A.M.
on the 2nd September, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat authorities that the trawler Washington, of Grimsby, was ashore near Duncansby Head.
The weather was...
Montbretia
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of November, 1952, the coastguard reported a mes- sage from the motor fishing vessel Montbretia, of Hull, asking for help as her engines had failed whilst on passage from...
Merlyn
Boulmer, Northumberland.—At 4.21 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in difficulties two miles to the eastward and was flying a black flag. At 4.35 the life-boat Clarissa Langdon...
The S.S. Albano
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 2.15 early on the morning of the 20th of Novem- ber, 1953, the South Gare coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Albano, of Hull, had wirelessed that she had gone aground in Tees Bay and had asked for tugs and a...
Janet
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 3.1 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was being driven southwards one mile from Portpatrick and needed help. The message was passed...
Serpae
Troon, Ayrshire. At 2.42 on the morning of the 22nd of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the 30-feet motor launch Serpae had left Portencross for Saltcoats at ten o'clock the night before, but had not...
The Converted Ship's Boat Curlew
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 1.25 on the morning of the 8th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boats had left Tobermory to search for a converted ship's boat, which had broken down off Mingary,...
Pan
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 2.57 on the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that the Norwegian vessel Pan had engine trouble six miles south-east of Dun- cansby Head and needed help imme- diately. The life-boat City...
Wal
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—On the morning1 of the 1st of September, 1956, the signal station sighted a yacht two miles south-east of St. Martin's Point signalling for help. At 6.53 the life- boat Euphrosyne Kendal put out in a...
The S.S. Southern Broom
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 10.44 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1956, the coast- guard telephoned that the S.S.
Southern Broom was making for Yar- mouth with a badly injured man aboard. He asked if...