LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Empress of India
The No. 1 Life- boat Covent Garden was launched at 1.45 P.M. on the 4th September, the Coastguard having reported a vessel was making distress signals. It transpired that the ketch barge Empress of India, of. Ipswich, whilst bound from...
Acacia
On the 12th May the ketch Acacia, of London, bound from Grimsby for Faro for the fisheries, was seen in the bay, evidently making for the harbour, in a moderate N.N.E. breeze and a rough sea, and a telephone message was received from the...
Granite City and Sheila
At 11.5 P.M. on the 26th November, a vessel was observed about two miles from the I shore to the north of Eyemouth, burn- ing flares and sounding her siren con- tinuously. She had previously been seen to be burning flares off St. Abbs Head,...
Rosina
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 1.15 in the morning of the 13th of June, 1947, the Castletown coastguard reported that a boat entering Castletown Bay was burning a flare. She was close inshore and it was thought that she would reach the...
Isle of Wight Coxswain
COXSWAIN WALTER O. COTTON, who died on the 23rd of May, 1948, at the age of 71, served at four life-boat stations in the Isle of Wight. He began his life-boat service in 1898 as a member of the crew at Brighstone Grange, of which his father...
Category: Obituaries
Amy II
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 10.45 on the night of the 25th of August, 1950, the Gorleston coastguard passed on a message from the British ship Cornea. She had the Dutch yacht Amy II in tow, disabled by an...
Girl Anne and Maureen
Girvan, Ayrshire. About one o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st of Novem- ber, 1951, when a gale was blowing, a message was heard on a fishing boat'swireless set in the harbour at Girvan that several fishing boats had left Whiting...
Kaapfalga
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
•—At 2.50 A.M. on the 13th December, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel about two miles E. by N. from Britannia Pier was thought to be ashore. A light, and increasing, S.E.<...
British Oak and Don Pat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.34 P.M.
on the 20th March, 1939, the R.N.
Shore Signal Station reported that rockets had been seen at Warden Point, coming from the Nore and Mouse...
None
FOOD, MAILS AND A DOCTOR Lerwick, Shetland*.—At 9.30 in the evening of the 28th of February, 1947, the postmaster asked, on behalf of himself and the food officer, if the life-boat could go out on the following day to take food and mails to...