LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Fishing Boats
PORT PATRICK.—On the afternoon of the 19th June two fishing-boats proceeded to the North fishing ground. One of them was fully manned, but the other had been hired by two visitors, and her crew consisted of a man and a boy. Towards evening a...
Maggie Murray
At about 11.20 A.M. on the 1st January it was reported to the Honorary Secretary that a small ketch was at anchor close to Allonby Bay, and as the weather was squally, with every indication of a heavy gale approaching, she was kept under...
Pauline May
At 10.57 A.M. on the llth September a boat- man at Frinton telephoned, through the Coastguard, that a small yacht was in difficulties off Frinton, and was flying a signal of distress. The Motor Life-boat E. M. E. D. was launched, and found...
The S.S. Monkton Combe
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.35 on the morning of the 13th of February, 1953, the Spurn Point Coastguard reported that the S.S. Monkton Combe, of Bristol, had been in collision with another vessel, and that the Monkton Combe was trying to beach...
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Dover, Kent.—At 11.48 on the night of the 9th of March, 1954, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that a woman had scrambled down a cliff near St.
Margaret's Bay. She had gone down to comfort her dog, which had fallen...
Racing Dinghies
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 5th of May, 1954, the life-boat bowman was on the New Brighton landing-stage when a sailing dinghy taking part in a race capsized. He arranged for the life-boat to be...
Stormalong
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.37 oil the morning of the 18th of May, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht was burning a flare near West Shoebury Buoy. At 6.10 the life- boat Greater London II, Civil Service No. 30, which had been...
A Boat
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.50 on the night of the 30th of July, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that shouts for help could be heard from the wreck-marker buoy in Ox- wich Bay. At 11.5 the life-boat William Gammon—Manchester and...
A Metal Dinghy
Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd of Septem- ber, 1955, the life-boat motor mechanic saw through a telescope three men in a metal dinghy. They had put off to try to recover a rubber dinghy, which was drifting out...
A Steam Trawler Strathlethen
On the 29th December, 1933, the steam trawler Strathkthen, of Aberdeen, had her steering gear carried away while she was making for the harbour on her return from the fishing grounds. She became unman- ageable, and was thrown by a heavy sea...