LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sunbeam
On the 14th March, when a fresh southerly breeze was blowing, and a rough sea was | running, the fishing-coble Sunbeam was j delayed some hours behind the others, in consequence of the night being very dark with snow falling heavily and the...
May
The Crew of the Motor Life-boat George Shee were assem- bled at 11 P.M. on 28th February as the Coastguard had reported to the Cox- swain that a vessel—which was found later to be the motor trawler May, of Ostend, bound for the fishing...
Nahula
Peel, Isle of Man.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 29th of May, 1955, the honorary secretary noticed that one of the yachts in the race round the island had been dismasted. At 10.20 the life-boat Helena Harris-Manchester and District XXXI was...
Kitty
Hastings, Sussex.—At 9.14 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1955, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had run ashore at Hook Ledge, Fairlight, and that her crew of two were shouting for help. At 9.35 the life-boat M.T.C...
Mavis
Blyth, Northumberland.—At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing coble Mavis, with a crew of two, was overdue, and at three o'clock the life-boat Winston Churchill, Civil...
A Paravane
DECEPTIVE PARAVANE At 1.46 a.m. on I4th February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a white flashing light had been seen half a mile east-south-east of Ventnor coastguard look-out. The life-boat crew assembled while...
Fishing Boats
TROUBLE ON THE BAR At 10.50 a.m. on 2yth January, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that one of the fishing fleet had encountered a heavy swell on the harbour bar when returning from the fishing grounds. As the weather was...
Etoile d'Arvor
TOW FOR FRENCH TRAWLER WITH ENGINE TROUBLE St. Ives, Cornwall. At six o'clock on the evening of the 12th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the French trawler Etoile d'Arvor was disabled three miles west...
Ocean Gain
FIREMEN ON BOARD North Sunderland, Northumberland.
On the evening of i6th October, 1963, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that he had been told that two vessels had been in collision in Newton Bay and that one...
Lijnbaan
Caister, Norfolk. At four o'clock on the morning of the 30th of May, 1958, a life-boat shore helper saw a vessel I aground on the Scroby Sands. At 5.15, after consultation with the coast- guard, the life-boat Jose...