LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Holland I
Dutch dredger THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Troon lifeboat station was told by Clyde Coastguard at 1345 on Friday September 12, 1980, that the Dutch dredger Holland I working off Irvine Harbour was breaking her moorings in severe weather...
Dorothy Lambert
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 1.8 early on the morning of the 3rd of October, 1954, the coastguard tele- phoned that the trawler Dorothy Lambert, of Fleetwood, had wirelessed that she had gone aground three miles north-west-by-west of...
Spero and Blanche
Wells, Norfolk.—On returning from fishing at 1.22 in the afternoon of the 30th of September, 1949, the life-boat coxswain announced that two fishing boats were still out. The weather had worsened and the life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at...
Ensign
On the 15th April the South Shields coast- guard reported that a steamer was ashore at the end of the South pier. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the weather was thick. The motor life-boat Henry Frederick Swan...
Glengary
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - On 30th April, 1969, as the life-boat was about to launch on exercise, the coastguard reported that a fishingvessel appeared to be in difficulties three miles north west of Porthdinllaen point. The life-boat...
Garavogue
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 3.36 p.m. on 14th September, 1969, a member of the National yacht club told the life-boat coxswain that he had seen distress flares between the west pier and Poolbeg, about two miles from the former. The...
A Dinghy (9)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 7.38 on the morning of the 3rd September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boys were at the Nab Light in a small sailing dinghy and needed a tow to Bembridge. They had been drifting...
A Whaler
WHALER HAD CAPSIZED Gourdon, Kincardineshire. At 11.35 a.m. on 28th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a navaltype whaler had capsized off the Todhead lighthouse, throwing the six occupants into the sea. The tide had...
Erita
Newhaven, Sussex - At 5.40 p.m. on loth July, 1966, a cabin cruiser was seen drifting off Roedean gap. There was a strong south-westerly wind with a moderate sea. The life-boat Kathleen Mary launched at 5.58 on an ebbing tide, and at 6.45...
The Motor Fishing Coble Gratitude
NOVEMBER 20TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 10.45 in the morning the life-boat crew were assembled, as anxiety was felt for the motor fishing coble Gratitude, which was at sea. A north-east gale was blowing, with heavy broken water. The...