LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Scone
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 9.36 on the morning of the 20th of December, 1950, the coastguard reported a sailing barge showing distress signals in the North Bay. At 10.10 the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, was launched in a moderate...
Branch
At 11 A.M. on the 17th May a N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy broken sea, and the local fishing boat Branch, with a crew of four, was still at sea. The motor life-boat Lady Rothes put out at 11.10 A.M. She picked up the Branch about a...
Pilot Cutter No.1
Appledore, Devon. — At 7.7 in the evening of the 30th of November, 1948, the Westward Ho coastguard telephoned that Pilot Cutter No. 1 was in difficulties on Bideford Bar and burning flares, and the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was...
The Motor Boat
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At four o'clock in the afternoon of the 10th of April, 1949, the Carnoustie coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat, with two on board, was alongside the North Carr Lightvessel. She had sprung a leak. The...
Cerise
Salcombe, Devon.—At 5.50 on the morning of the 26th of September, 1953, the Hope Cove coastguard rang up to say that a sailing boat wassignalling for help half a mile south- west of Prawle Point. At 6.5 the life-boat Samuel and Marie...
Devotion
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 3rd of May, 1954, the coastguard reported that the local motor fishing boat Devotion, with a crew of three, was in difficulties about three miles north-east of Dunbar and had asked for...
Violet Sinclair
TRIPLE TROUBLE Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 4.13 p.m. on 20th June, 1965, the coastguard told the coxswain that they had observed red flares coming from a fishing boat about two-and-a-half miles out. At 4.25 the life-boat, The Chieftain was...
Combesco
Padstow, Cornwall. At 12.8 p.m. on 26th February, 1966, the Trevose Head coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Belgian trawler Combesco of Ostend was in a dangerous position under Skepper Point. The Land's End Radio had...
Albatross
ANCHOR WAS DRAGGING Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 4.16 p.m. on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small longshore boat was in difficulties in the moderate seas and fresh south-westerly breeze...
Chindwyn V
At 2.40 p.m. on 13th July, 1968, the coastguard informed the acting honorary secretary that a motor boat had fired flares three miles west of Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 2.47 in a fresh south...