LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ariadne Johanna
Berwick-on- Tweed, Northumberland.
—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing vessel Ariadne Johanna, of Schevenin- gen, which was one mile east of the pier,...
Two Sabre Aeroplanes
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 3.32 in the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that two Sabre aeroplanes of the R.C.A.F.
had collided near the Wainfleet bomb- ing range and that a parachute had been...
Coima
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 1.46 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1953, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that the Hayling Island Sail- ing Club had reported that a yacht off Chichester harbour had lost her rudder and was in...
Ros Corr
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1953.
the Civic Guard at Portmagee reported that the fishing boat Ros Corr, of Dublin, with a crew of six, needed help seven miles north of Bray Head....
Fishing Boats and Hall Mark
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, a heavy gale sprang up from the south bringing a rough sea and rain squalls.
The fishing fleet was at sea. The motor life-boat Stanhope Smart was launched...
A Fishing Boat (3)
Fowey, Cornwall.—16th November, 1938. A fishing boat had gone ashore at Mevagissey, but the crew were rescued by another boat and from the shore.—Rewards, £13 2*. 6d..
Minnie II
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. — On the llth March, 1939, the life-boat motor mechanic saw a sailing yacht which appeared to be in difficulties about three miles S.E. of the life-boathouse.
A moderate N.N.W. gale was blowing,...
None (6)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. — 1st June, 1939. Two girls had been cut off by the tide at Llanelly, but they reached safety without the life-boat's help.— Rewards, £2 5s..
Blanket for a Life-Boat
Two little girls of Withernsea, aged thirteen and eleven, have sent a blanket, which they had made themselves, to Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber station, to be used in the life-boat..
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Violet, Promote II, Boy George, Union, and Victory
Fraserburgh, Aberdeensbire. — Later on the same day, 5th October, 1939, information was received that the small fishing boats of Fraserburgh, Violet, Promote II, Boy George, Union, and Victory, had put out at 2.30 P.M. but had not returned...