LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary Coad
GRIMSBY-.—On the 6th March, at 2.30 P.M., the schooner Mary Coad, of Port Isaac, Cornwall, bound from Antwerp to Middlesbrough, was observed flying a signal of distress in the main rigging. She was riding in the Humber about half-amile N.N.W...
Winnyfold
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 7.44 on the morning of the 3rd of February, 1958, the South Gare coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Winnyfold of Grimsby was ashore two miles east of the South Gare breakwater. At...
Ranger
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.53 in the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1948, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board reported that a fishing boat had capsized and the crew were clinging to C.ll Black Buoy. A moderate north- westerly breeze was...
Virginia
Ilfracombe, Devon.—About half past four on the afternoon of the 30th of September, 1950, a small boat was seen by a member of the life-boat crew making distress signals north-east of Ilfracombe. This was confirmed by the coastguard. At 5.15...
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AIRCRAFT CRASHED Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.
At 12.21 p.m. on iyth February, 1964, the coastguard told the Appledore honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea four to seven miles north of Hartland...
Harmony
Exmouth, Devon - At 8.40 p.m. on 2nd August, 1966, a yacht was in distress off Brandy Head near Beer. There was fresh west south westerly breeze with moderate sea. It was high water. The lifeboat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty...
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SEPTEMBER 2ND. - MARGATE, KENT.
During the afternoon the coastguard reported that a party of bathers off Nayland Rock had got into difficulties. A fresh easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. As it was dead low water...
Puffin, of Rochester
FEBRUARY 1ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.24 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen four miles south-west-by-west of Clacton pier, and half an hour later the motor lifeboat Edward Z. Dresden was...
A Twenty-Mile Tow Off the Kerry Coast
AT 4.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of May, 1953, the honorary secretary of the Valentia, Co. Kerry, life-boat station heard from the Valentia radio station, that the French trawler Liber- ator, of Calmaret, had lost her propeller and...
Category: Services
Fanny, of Salcombe
On January 3 the schooner Fanny, of Salcombe, bound from Cardiff to Barbadoes, became a total wreck in Tramore Bay, county Waterford. The vessel had been observed, soon after noon, trying to beat out of the Bay, into "which a heavy sea,...