LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Princess Charming
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—On the morning of the. 18th February the coastguard reported that the motor trawler Princess Charming, of Grimsby, which was off Holborn Head, was in need of immediate help. She was fishing out of Scrabster, and her...
A Steam Fishing Vessel
The Humber, Yorkshire. — 30th October, 1937. A steam fishing vessel had run ashore at Easington, but her crew were rescued by the coastguard rocket life-saving appliance.—Rewards, 18s. Permanent paid crew..
Mary Joy, Hyperion, Margaret and Floreat
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at noon on the 12th February, 1938, as the weather had got very bad, and the local motor fishing boats Mary Joy, Hyperion, Margaret and Floreat were at sea. A strong...
Boy Sam
St. Ives, Cornwall.—On the 16th August, 1938, the motor life-boat John and Sarah Eliza Stych was on passage from St. Ives to Falmouth for overhaul.
A strong W.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. As the life-boat...
Lavinia
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the^afternoon of the 3rd October the coastguard reported that a smallJyacht about fourmiles N.W. of Portland Bill was firing distress signals, and the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched at 2.10 P.M. A...
Mr. A. J. Phillips, of Newport, Monmouthshire
Mr. A. J. Phillips, of Newport, Monmouthshire, w o died on 12th September, was one of the Institution's oldest and most devoted supporters.
First as honorary secretary and then as chairman, he had been associated with...
Category: Obituaries
Dirk II
Selsey, Sussex.—At 5.34 on the after- noon of the 14th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to pass on a report that a yacht appeared to be in distress about one mile off shore between East Wittering and Bracklesham Bay. The life-boat...
A Rowing Boat
Newhaven, Sussex. — At half past eleven on the morning of the 6th of November, 1949, the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched for exer- cise. There was a choppy sea, with an easterly breeze blowing. As she was returning, she...
Victoria
Dover, Kent.—At 1.14 in the after- noon of the 3rd of December, 1949, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported in difficulties five miles south-south-east of the South Goodwin Light-vessel. The life-boat Southern...
Hondsrug
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 2.27 in the afternoon, on the 18th of December, 1949, the Gorleston coast- guard reported that a vessel at anchor off Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth, was flying a signal for...