LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lord Mottistone
ALL who are connected with the Lifeboat Service will have heard with great regret of the death on the 7th of November, 1947, in his eightieth year, of Major-General the Right Hon. Lord Mottistone, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., P.C.
Category: Obituaries
Mabruki
Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.40 ill the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1947, Lloyd's Signal Station reported that a motor yacht was in distress and drag- ging her anchor one hundred yards off the station. The motor life-boat Charles Cooper...
Moa
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.30 on the night of the 25th of January, 1948, the Hoylake coastguard tele- phoned that a fishing vessel was in distress near C.2 A Buoy, half a mile off the Crosby Lightvessel and at 12.15 the No. 2 motor...
Luana
Blackpool, Lancashire.—At 11.20 on the night of the 8th of May, 1948, the police telephoned that flares had been seen. At 11.45 what appeared to be oil burning on the water could be seen, and at 12.13 the motor life-boat Sarah Ann...
Quireda
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.— At 12.20 in the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1948, information was received that a yacht was in distress and dragging her anchor towards the rocks at the harbour entrance, and the motor life-boat Sarah...
Menapia
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At five in the evening of the 20th of November, 1948, a signal was received from the motor vessel Menapia, of Wexford, that a doctor was urgently needed, and the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson...
Alpha
Girvan, Ayrshire. — At 4.40 in the afternoon of the 20th of March, 1949, the Alpha, of Stranraer, a ketch with an auxiliary engine, was seen to be at anchor three miles south of the har- bour. It looked as if her engines had broken down. A...
Morning Star
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 10.50 in the morning of the 22nd of March, 1949, a report was received by telephone that the Cahirciveen motor fishing boat Morning Star, which had gone out the previous evening with a crew of four, had not returned....
Lesley
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.20 early on the 15th of August, 1953, the stageman told the coxswain that a yachtsman had reported that he had seen another yacht in distress off R.7 Buoy in the Rock Channel. At 12.45 the life-boat Norman B....
Heemskerk
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 10.27 on the morning of the 3rd of December, 1953, the Wyke Regis coastguard rang up to say that the Shambles light-vessel had reported that a vessel passing her was flying a distress signal. At 10.40 the life-boat...