LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maisie
ON THE ROCKS At 1.15 a.m. on nth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he had seen a red flare north of Trevor Point. There was a very rough sea with gale force west-south-westerly winds.
The tide had...
A Wellington Bomber
APRIL 13TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 10.50 in the morning a Wellington bomber crashed in the sea a mile northwest of the life-boat station. The southerly breeze was light, the sea calm. As the coxswain and crew of the...
S.S. Moorwood
OCTOBER 28TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.50 in the morning, the naval authorities at Chatham telephoned the coxswain that the S.S. Moorwood had struck a wreck and was going to beach on the South- East Maplin Sands. She was a London...
Little Flower
FEBRUARY 26TH . - HOWTH , CO. DUBLIN. At 4 P.M. it was reported that the open motor boat Little Flower, a local fishing boat, with three men on board, had not returned from fishing, and at 4.30 P.M. the motor life-boat R.P.L. was launched. A...
Evelyn
At 11 P.M.
on the 14th January, during a strong S.W. gale with a heavy sea, signals of distress were observed from a vessel about two miles to the E. of Caldy Island. The Life - boat William and Mary Devey was promptly...
Birda
PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—Shortly after noon on Sunday, the 1st March, it was reported that the steam trawler Birda, of Milford, was on the "Doombar" with the sea washing right over her. Rockets were at once fired, and while the crew were...
Scottish Prince
The No. 1 Life-boat Lizzie Porter was called out for service on the 30th May to a trawler, which had stranded on the Goldstone Rock and eventually became a total wreck. Information reached Holy Islaad at about noon that a vessel was ashore,...
Sapphire
YOUGHAL.—The Chief Officer of Coastguard having reported that a steamer, bearing about fourteen miles E. of Youghal, appeared to be in distress, on the 28th March, the Life-boat Mary Luckombe was launched at noon and proceeded under sail to...
Boy Pat and Nellie
Islay, Inner Hebrides, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of the 13th of August, 1948, the Kil- choman coastguard telephoned that a vessel about three miles north-north- west of Coul Point had made flares, and at 6.15 the...
Bonne Sante
Walmer, Kent.—At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 1st of September, 1955, the Deal coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the East Goodwin lightvessel that a yacht needed help about two miles west-by- south of the...