LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nancy Dennis and Britannia
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 7.30 A.M.
on the 30th May, 1938, a north gale sprang up, bringing a rough sea.
Several of the local fishing cobles were at sea, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina...
Woodlock
During a whole W. by S. gale on the night of the 28th-29th December the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 was called out to the assistance of a vessel which was in difficulties near the Middle Shoebury Buoy. The Life-boat found the tug Woodcock,...
A Motor Fishing Boat
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 2.45 in the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1951, the honorary secre- tary was on the sea front and saw a local motor fishing boat two miles to the west of the life-boat station drift- ing rapidly. She had...
Mercurius
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.20 on the night of the 15th of November, 1949, during a fog, the coastguard reported that two ships had been in collision off Thames Haven. As a result, four men were adrift in a ship's boat, others...
Amy II
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.22 on the afternoon of the 9th of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that East Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a yacht near it in urgent need of help.
Eleven minutes later the...
Mary Immaculate
ENGINE BROKE DOWN Galway Bay. At 12.10 a.m. on 6th January, 1964, the Galway police informed the honorary secretary through the Kilronan coast life-saving station that a fishing boat with four people on board was missing in Galway Bay. There...
Jewel
Ramsgate, Kent.—On the evening of the 17th of August, 1951, the coast- guard reported a yacht aground on the Brake Sands. As she was listing heavily and darkness was approaching the life-boat Prudential left her moor- ings at 8.57 to help...
Isallt
FIVE LIVES LOST Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 4.35 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1947, the Coast Life Saving Service reported a vessel in distress off Bally- money, Co. Wexford, about ten miles by sea from Arklow, and the motor life-boat...
Wyvern
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At nine o'clock on the morning of the 5th of October, 1952, the Red Sand Forts reported that a yacht had stranded on the Forts' steel structure and that two boys had been taken off her. The Forts asked if...
Gina
Barrow, Lancashire. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 1 Oth of September.
1959, the police informed the coxswain that the fishing boat Gina of Barrow with a crew of five, which had been at sea fishing the previous...