LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Aith, Shetlands.—14th January. During the evening the coastguard at Lerwick telephoned that two rockets had been seen north of the Vee Skerries.
A moderate N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and showers of snow....
Rally
Selsey, Sussex.—The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 2 P.M.
on the 20th April, as the coastguard had telephoned that two fishing boats were at sea. A south gale was blowing, with a choppy sea. One boat came...
Sark
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At 11.47 in the morning, on the 18th of July, 1950, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized one and a quarter miles off Nevin Point.
Thirteen minutes later the life-boat...
G. V. H.
Cr0mer, Norfolk.—The motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 7.20 A.M.
on the 30th May, 1938, after information had been receired from the coast-guard that the fishing boat G. V. H., of Great Yarmouth, was in...
John M.
Cromer, and Sberingham, Norfolk.— On the morning of the 7th August, 1938, the motor vessel John M., of London, ran ashore off Beeston Hill between Cromer and Sheringham, while bound from Blyth to Teignmouthladen with coal and carrying a crew...
Oceanic
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.27 A.M. on the 16th September, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that the Brake Light-vessel had reported that the barge Oceanic, which was near her, had a man on board dangerously ill, and that the skipper wanted to get...
Skipjack
Ramsgate, Kent.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 25th of October, 1956, a message was received from the east pier that red flares had been seen two miles east of Ramsgate and that the local motor boat Skipjack.
with...
Spring Flower
Ilfracombe, Devon.—About noon on the 4th of August, 1957, a message was received that a yacht was in diffi- culties off Bull Point. Another yacht had tried to tow her but had failed to make headway and had cast off the tow and made for...
Fishing Boats (3)
Arbroath, Angus.—The local fishing fleet put out during the early morning of the 23rd November, 1938, in fine weather. Later on a S.E. wind sprang up and rapidly increased to gale force. The sea grew very rough, with heavy rain, sleet and...
Marigold
Bembridge, Isle of Wight..—Early in the afternoon of the 22nd April, 1939, a sailing yacht was seen making towards Whitecliffe Bay with her sails damaged.
She was kept under observation by the coastguard and life-boatmen. A...