LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Watermillock, of Sunderland
Early on the morning of the 6th November, during a gale of wind from the N.N.W., accompanied by blinding showers, a vessel was observed in distress about a mile and a half from this place. The Par see life- boat promptly proceeded to the...
None
Two boys, in search of driftwood, crossed a ridge of rocks between the mainland and Scottle Holm, about two miles to the North of Lerwick, on 7th November, and were cut off by the rising tide. Their where- abouts was discovered about nine at...
Abgir
Appledore, Devon. At 10.10 on the night of the 13th of February, 1958, the Westward Ho coastguard told the coxswain that the Dutch motor vessel Abgir was in a dangerous position and dragging her anchor at Down End.
After a...
Silver Line and Britannia
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 6.45 on the^morning of the 14th of November, 1956, the coxswain received a message from a local fisherman that two fishing cobles were at sea with the weather becoming worse. At 7.35 the life-boat Friendly Forester...
St. Joseph
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 3.35 in the afternoon on the 4th of November, 1949, a fishing vessel at the north end of the bay was seen to be flying a distress signal. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at 3.42 in a rough...
Breadwinner
Dover, Kent.—At 12.43 in the morn- ing, on the 6th of April, 1950, the Sandgate coastguard reported that the S.S. Shepperton Ferry had wirelessed that a fishing vessel had broken down two and a quarter miles south-east of the South Goodwin...
Sirius
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.10 on the evening of the 25th of August, 1951, the Port Radar Station telephoned that a yacht had broken her topmast and was in difficulties near Brockle- bank Dock. At 5.38 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett was...
A Landing Craft (2)
NOVEMBER 14TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. At 8.15 at night the life-boat coxswain was informed by the officer of Naval Motor Launch 535 that a landing craft had run ashore at Newford Island Point. A fresh north-by-east wind was blowing,...
Wyre, of Fleetwood,
LYTHAM.—About 11 A.M. on the 11th April, the schooner Wyre, of Pleetwood, having had all her sails blown away, was forced ashore, by the violence of a N.W. gale, on the Horse Bank, at the entrance to the River Ribble. Heavy snow-squalls...
Gull
Margate, Kent. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser, which had been under observation, appeared to have broken down and was drifting with the tide about seven...