LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Security
AGROUND At 9.36 a.m. on 2ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a cabin cruiser called Security was aground on Margate sands. The boat was kept under observation from the harbour by the coxswain and honorary secretary, who...
The United States Motor Vessel American Merchant
AFTER HEART ATTACK Penlee, Cornwall. At 8 p.m. on I2th October, 1963, the port doctor told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from Niton radio station that the United States motor vessel American Merchant had a man on...
Sapphire, of Glasgow
Newhaven, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 2nd December, 1937, the motor vessel Sapphire, of Glasgow, bound for Ghent, had trouble with her engine when some miles off the coast between Newhaven and Shoreham. The...
Mannin
MCH. 20TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.
During the afternoon a whole gale sprang up from the N.W., bringing with it a heavy sea.
A watch was kept for the local fishing smack Mannin, which was at sea. As nothing...
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Irma Alice
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 26th of September, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the Humber radio station that the trawler Irma Alice,...
Dunkerquoise, of Dunkirk
The Bradford life-boat at Ramsgate, under the management of the Board of Trade, and two Broadstairs life-boats not belonging to the Institution, assisted to get the schooner Dunkerquoise, of Dunkirk, off the North Sand Head. She was, however...
Skylark, of Poole
APRIL 21ST. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. During the afternoon the motor boat Skylark, of Poole, foundered in Bournemouth Bay when on a pleasure cruise with about seventy people on board.
The weather was fine, the sea...
Fishing Boats (4)
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the afternoon of the 15th of February, 1951, two keel boats which had reached har- bour reported to the life-boat coxswain that four open fishing cobles were at sea in bad weather. At 2.25 the life-boat E...
Davento
Southwold, Suffolk. At 1.50 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized one mile off Southwold. At 1.55 the IRB launched in a moderate gusting to fresh south-westerly breeze and came up with the...