LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer (22)
JULY 15TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A steamer was reported to have been bombed and sunk by enemy aeroplanes, but the lifeboat found nothing except a patch of oil.
Another vessel picked up an injured man in a...
The S.S. Teddington (2)
NOVEMBER 4TH - 6TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
Both of the Cromer life-boats were launched to the S.S. Teddington, which had stranded after enemy attack in September.
For details see September 17th, page...
None (2)
JANUARY 18TH. - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
WATERFORD, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. Flares had been reported, but the life-boats found nothing, although a Lowestoft drifter said that she had seen an aeroplane dropping...
Two Dinghies
AUGUST 4TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
Two dinghies had been reported in difficulties, one off Sutton-on-Sea, the other north of Mablethorpe, but both were picked up by other boats. - Permanent paid...
The Faroese Motor Vessel Harry
MAY 25TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
The Faroese motor vessel Harry had been reported on fire, but on her way out the life-boat learned from H.M.
trawler Ebor Abbey that she had found the Harry...
A Ship’s Boat
JUNE 13TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
A drifting ship’s boat had been reported eighty-four miles west of Greenhead, Isle of Barra, but nothing was found.
Rewards, £18 14s..
Canoes and Audrey
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 10.40 on the morning of the 21st of July, 1957, the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched to stand by during the Bristol Channel canoe race between Weston-super-Mare and Barry. In the early afternoon...
A Punt and a Canoe
THREE LIFE-BOAT CALLS IN FOUR HOURS Moelfre, Anglesey. At 1.20 on the afternoon of Friday, August 23rd, 1963, the Moelfre coastguard reported that an 8-foot punt with two on board was in serious difficulties four and a half miles south-south...
The Danish Motor Trawler C. Risager
JUNE 18TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
At 11.3 P.M. the harbour master reported through the coastguard that a fishing vessel was in distress two and a half miles south-west of Maryport, and at 11.32 P.M. the motor life-boat...
An Auster Aircraft (1)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent ; Hast- ings and Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 7th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Eastbourne that an Auster aircraft was missing on a flight from Lympne...