LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sea Cadet Whaler
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 11.17 on the night of the 24th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a Sea Cadet whaler from Portsmouth, with a crew of three, was under sail about one mile north of Ramore Head, but was drifting seawards...
An American Fortress Aeroplane
JUNE 25TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. At twelve noon the coastguard telephoned that an airman was in the sea 500 yards S.E. of Waxham. He was one of the crew of an American Fortress aeroplane. All the crew had baled out but the others had come down...
Warkworth Castle
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the afternoon of the 18th December, the brig Warkworth Castle, of Amble, bound to that port from Gloucester in ballast, droveashore in a snowstorm on Bondicar Bocks, near this Life-boat station. Her signals of...
John Green
DROGHEDA, IRELAND.—The schooner John Green, of this port, bound there with coal from Ardrossan, was entering the river Boyne on the llth February, while the wind was blowing hard from the E.N.E., and a very heavy sea...
Floradora
Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 11.13 on the night of the 15th of November, 1957, the coastguard reported that a vessel was making distress signals about half a mile off Anstruther harbour.
The life-boat James and Ruby Jackson...
A Sailing Dinghy (4)
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 5.7 on the even- ing of the 9th of September, 1952, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy between two and three miles south of Polruan had had her sails blown away, and at 5.25 the life- boat C.D.E.C....
Escape
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.50 on the evening of the 29th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht at Pollard Spit was signalling and needed help. At 9.30 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched....
Robina
Information reached Broughty Ferry between 7 and 8 P.M. on the 3rd April that a steam trawler was ashore on the Goa Bank, and signalling for assistance.
The crew of the Life-boat Samuel Shaw- cross were summoned and the...
Annabell
The fishing coble Annabell, of Newbiggin, was observed in distress about a mile from the shore shortly before 11 A.M. on the 8th January, and it was seen that she was unable to get into the Haven.
The wind had increased to...
Fertile
WITHERNSEA.—On the morning of the 1st April intelligence was received that a fishing smack and a large steamer had stranded. A dense fog prevailed at the time and there was a heavy ground swell.
The Life-boat Admiral Sous...