LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Robert and Elizabeth
NEW BRIGHTON.—The coast-guard on duty having reported a signal of distress in the Crosby Channel at 10 P.M. on the 25th February, the steam Life-boat Queen proceeded in the direction indicated and found the schooner Robert and Elizabeth, of...
Mary Anne
Ferryside, Carmarthenshire.—At about 1.30 in the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1948, the Tenby coastguard telephoned that a bod'y had been washed ashore at Ferryside that morn- ing, and the motor fishing vessel Mary Anne, of Swansea,...
Lesal
Eastbourne, Sutiex.—At 7.45 in the evening of the llth of July, 1948, the Eastbourne Angling Association re- ported that their motor boat Lesal, which a party of four had taken out for a day s fishing, was overdue, and at 7.58 the motor life...
Seagull
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — At 1.45 in the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1948, the harbour-master tele- phoned that a small yawl, under sail, was about six miles out to sea and appeared to be in difficulties. A squally north-westerly...
Memories of An Old Life-Boatman
" I AM writing a few lines to thank you for the life-boat journal you send me, and also my pension I receive at the end of the year. I am very interested in the life-boat. I was born in Clovelly on May 31st, 1869, and in 1887, when I...
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A Motor Launch
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—During the morning of the 17th December, 1937, the harbour-master's son reported having seen a motor launch drifting westward off Yarmouth, burning flares and waving a flag. A fresh...
Minnie
New Brighton, Cheshire.—On the evening of the 10th June, 1938, news was received through the Mersey Dock Board that a vessel was ashore on the Burbo Bank. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat City of Bradford I,...
Flying Fox
Poolbeg, Co. Dublin.—At 9.10 on the evening of the 18th of July, 1954, the Dublin Port and Docks Board Bathing Master telephoned that a yacht had run ashore between No. 4 and No. 6 buoys in the River Liffey. At 9.40 the life-boat Helen Blake...
Larrios
Kirkcudbright.—At 2.55 on the after- noon of the 19th of September, 1954, the Ross Island coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties. She had been burning1 flares and was now drifting rapidly towards rocks. At 3.15 the life-boat...
Heartsease
Dover, Kent.—At 8.35 in the evening, on the 9th of July, 1950, the Sandgate coastguai'd telephoned that a sailing ship seemed to be in difficulties east of Dover. At 8.50 the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings. The sea was...