LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Regina
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At noon on the 7th of August, 1955, a message was received from the harbour office that the local yacht Regina had put off with a crew of two, and that anxiety was felt for her safety in the ebbing tide. Twenty...
None
On the after- noon of the llth January, a doctor asked for the life-boat to go to Caldy Island to fetch to the mainland a girl who had been badly burnt and was in great pain. It would have been dan- gerous to fetch her in an open boat, and...
Ocean Star (1)
Valentia, and Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 4.30 in the morning, on the 1st of August, 1950, the Valentia life-boat authorities received a telephone message from the Dingle Civic Guard. The local motor fishing vessel Ocean Star, with a crew of two,...
The S.S.Pandora and the S.S. Gripfast (1)
Tessmouth, Whitby, and Runswick, Yorkshire. — In the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the S.S.Pandora, of Beaumaris, foundered in a gale and a very heavy sea one and a half miles off Runswick, with the loss of her crew of six. The...
Livre
A CAREFUL WATCH Sheringham, Norfolk. — During the early morning of the 21st of September, 1947, a motor ketch left Yarmouth for Wisbech, in fine weather, but the wind got up, and when, about 10 o'clock, she was off Sheringham, she was...
Tern and the Trinity Vessel Reculver
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 8.45 A.M. on the 18th November, 1937, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Tern, of London, appeared to be showing signals about one and a half miles E.N.E. from Britannia...
None (2)
Selsey, Sussex. At 4.35 on the after- noon of the 20th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that three bathers were in diffi- culties off Selsey Bill point. At 4.40 the life-boat Canadian Pacific put out in a...
Windsor Rose and June Rose
Cromer, Norfolk. Shortly after noon on the 16th of April, 1960, weather conditions began to deteriorate and some anxiety was felt for two Shering- ham crab boats fishing off Cromer.
The Sheringham coxswain made en- quiries...
Maida
Dunbar, East Lothian. On the 18th June, 1961, at 8.40 in the morning messages were received from the coast- guard that a yacht in the Forth needed help but had been lost to view from the shore. Various messages were received, but all were...
Libra
Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 2.30 on the after- noon of the 1st of February, 1957, a message was received from Ballydavid that six men who were freeing the anchor chain of their motor vessel Libra had been blown ashore in their ship's boat and...