LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Spray
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At 12.55 P.M. on the 25th October the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), which had just returned from the service already described, was warned that a yacht was ashore on Nore Sands, She put off...
Fishing Boats
Girvan, Ayrshire.-—-On the morning of 8th March, 1939, a strong W.N.W.
wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and the fresh water from the flooded river Girvan was making the harbour bar extremely dangerous. Five fishing boats...
Olive
Torbay, Devonshire.—On the 27th October, 1939, it was reported to the senior naval officer, Weymouth, by an observer on a R.A.F. aeroplane, en- gaged on reconnaisance over West Bay, that a motor boat was drifting about ten miles north-east...
Cover Picture
Coxswain Robert McMullan, of Portrush, Co. Antrim, a professional fisherman, was appointed Second Coxswain in 1940 and Coxswain in 1964. His life-boat is the Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4), a 46 foot 9 inch Watson, which was built in 1949.... - View image in PDF
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Crean
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 7.20 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the St. Anthony coastguard rang up to say that a woman had reported that a black-painted yacht was dragging her anchor off Helford River. The life- boat Crawford and...
Twin Brothers
Dunbar, East Lothian.—About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 13th of August, 1956, a message was re- ceived that a fishing vessel, Twin Brothers, with a crew of three, was overdue. The life-boat George and Sarah Strachan put out at...
Dreadnought
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that a motor fishing vessel anchored about three miles east-north-east of Ramsey harbour was burning red flares. At one o'clock the...
Madonna
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 9.15 on the evening of the 12th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a small boat with three men on board was firing red flares off Rossall Point.
At 9.35 the life-boat Ann Letitia...
A Motor Boat
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1957, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat was drifting about a mile and a half south of Black Head in St. Austell Bay. Eight minutes later the life-boat...
Four Dinghies
FOUR DINGHIES CAPSIZE St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 3.55 p.m.
on Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the Eyemouth coastguard informed the honorary secretary at St. Abbs that two sailing dinghies had capsized off Eyemouth.