LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Trawler Loch Hope
NOVEMBER 2ND. - HARTLEPOOL , DURHAM. An aeroplane was reported down in Tees Bay, and at 2.5 in the morning the motor life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) put out to search for her.
She found nothing, but as...
Lady Mary
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 5.53 P.M. on the 7th May, 1938, the coastguard reported that a barge lying about two miles south of Walton Pier was flying a distress signal. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rather rough sea....
Efbee
Torbay, Devon - At 9.59 p.m. on yth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flare had been seen about eight miles off Teignmouth. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings at 10.10 in a...
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Ocean Spray
FOUR LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH OF A YACHT Padstow, Cornwall, Clovelly, Appledore, and Dfracombe, Devon.—On the llth of November, 1947, the motor yacht Ocean Spray, with a crew of two men and a woman, ran«into very bad weather off the north...
Salmi
On the 5th December, the weather being thick, and a strong wind from W.S.W. blowing, a barque was observed in the bay, apparently making for the land. As soon as her dangerous po- sition was seen, the Agar Bobartes life-boat put off, through...
A German Yacht
Any lifeboat launch can be risky, and a carriage launch from an exposed beach is particularly so. Overcoming a problem and completing a service is part of the tradition of the lifeboat service - well illustrated by an incident at Dungeness...