LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat (3)
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—On the, afternoon of the 2nd September a small boat, with a woman and her son on board, capsized one and a half miles S.S.W. of Ramore Head, in a strong S.S.E. breeze, with a moderate sea.
The accident...
Black Maria
Fowey, Cornwall.—On the evening of the 16th of September, 1950, the yacht Black Maria, with no one on board, broke her moorings at Fowey. In a rough sea and a fresh south-westerly gale, she was swept up the harbour, striking the life-boat...
The Motor Fishing Boats Pilot Me and Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire.—As the tide ebbed during the afternoon of the 8th April, 1938, a rough sea began to break heavily outside the pier ends, making the harbour entrance dangerous. • A strong N.
breeze was blowing. The motor...
Dunluce
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At about 4 P.M. on the llth August, 1939, the second coxswain of the life-boat reported that the motor fishing boat Dunluce, of Portrush, with a crew of four on board, was in need of help off Curran Point. A moderate...
Bloom
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 10.10 on the night of the 23rd of De- cember, 1948, the harbour watchman telephoned that a fishing vessel was burning flares about four miles east of Kinnaird Head, and at 10.20, in the charge of Captain R. T....
Muriel I
Hastings, Sussex. — At 5.36 in the morning of the 16th of October, 1949, the coastguard reported a motor launch signalling for help off the harbour wall.
At 6.5 the life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched in a...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 1.29 on the afternoon of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy had been reported in difficulties in Newport Bay. At 2.3 the life-boat White Star was...
Krab
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 6.57 on the morning of the 25th of August, 1954, the Fifeness coastguard telephoned that the fishing vessel Krab, of Gdynia, had run ashore half a mile east of Leven. At 7.12 the life-boat James and Ruby Jackson was...
Lead Us and Pilot Me II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th of March, 1952, the coastguard reported that a local fishing vessel was making heavy weather as she approached the har- bour, and at 12.50 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
An Army D.U.K.W.
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1953, the coastguard reported that an Army D.U.K.W. was in distress near Manor- bier, and at 2.39 the life-boat John R.
Webb was launched. The sea was...