LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Minnie Coles
On the 14th January, at 5.30 A.M., during a moderate breeze from the N.N.E., with snow squalls, the Bradford Life-boat and harbour steam-tug Vulcan, went out in response to signals of distress, and brought the schooner Minnie Coles, of...
Grasshopper
At about 10 A.M., on the 7th March, a message from Boarhills reported that a vessel was in a dangerous position about 4 miles east of St. Andrew's. The wind had fallen, but a very heavy sea was still running. The Ladies' Own...
Atlantic
Salcombe, Devon. — At 9.20 in the morning, on the 17th of April, 1950, the Greystones coastguard reported that a motor fishing boat seemed to be in difficulties three and a half miles west of Bolt Head. At 10.9 the life- boat Samuel and...
Tarka
Swanage, Dorset. — About seven o'clock on the morning of the 31st of July, 1954, the St. Albans Head coast- guard telephoned that the yacht Tarka was in distress three miles south-south- west of Anvil Point. At 7.14 the life-boat R.L.P....
Rudderman
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—About 1.30 early on the morning of the 17th of Novem- ber, 1952, the tanker Rudderman, of London, wirelessed that her chief engineer had a badly poisoned arm and asked for a boat to land him. The weather was too bad for a...
Winifred Rose
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.54 on the morning of the 15th of September, 1953, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say that the motor cruiser Winifred Rose, of South Shields, had broken down a mile south-south-east of the pier...
Chalon
Campbeltown, Argyllshire - At 12.30 p.m. on igth June, 1967, a message was received that the motor fishing vessel Chalon, which had left Campbeltown on the 18th to attend to her lobster pots at Arran, had broken down on the return journey...
H.M.S. Saltburn
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
At 11.25 at night the honorary secretary of the life-boat station received a telephone message from the Barrow police that a vessel was arriving off Lightening Knoll at midnight and...
A Canoe
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 3.5 p.m. on 8th February, 1970, it was learnt that a man was clinging to a capsized canoe and drifting off shore in a northerly direction.
The life-boat Edian Courtauld slipped her moorings at...
Fishing Cobles
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—On the 10th January, the Hannah Somerset Life-boat pat off and rendered assistance to several fishing cobles which were in danger during a very strong E.N.E. wind and heavy sea.
With the help of the...