LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Galilee and Venus
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 9 A.M.
on the 20th August the motor fishing boats Galilee and Venus were expected in from fishing. The sea had gr.own rapidly during the morning, and was then breaking heavily outside' the...
Carmela
Dungeness, Kent. At ten o'clock on the night of the 22nd of June, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that a small coaster was ashore half a mile north-east of the life-boat station with her engine broken down. The life-boat Mabel...
Perichole
At 9.35 p.m. on 3rd September, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sloop anchored near Penman point was being buffeted by gale force winds and that anxiety was felt for her safety in the fading light. The life-boat...
The S.S. Helmsdale
JULY 19TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.15 P.M. a message was received from the Seahouses coastguard that distress signals had been heard from the direction of Longstone Lighthouse. A light easterly breeze was...
Foxhound
On the night of the 18th October the honorary secretary received word from West Angle and St. Ann's Head that rockets were being fired in Mill Bay. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and visibility was...
Trader, of Portaferry
NEWCASTLE, DUNDBUM BAY.—At 1 P.M. on the 13th February, the brigantine Trader, of Portaferry, was seen driving before a hard gale, at S.E., into Dundrum Bay. The Trader had lost her foretopmast and was otherwise disabled aloft, and had a...
Edna
Plymouth, Devon.—At 12.8 early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the Yealm coastguard reported that flares had been seen in the direc- tion of Picklecombe and stated that a naval M.F.V. had put out. At 1.55 the Queen's...
The S.S. Maja
WITHERNSEA.—The s.s. Maja, of Copenhagen, having stranded about two miles N. of the pier at Withernsea on the 7th January, the Life-boat Admiral Sous proceeded to her assistance at 6.15 A.M.
The wind was blowing from the...