LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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APRIL 29TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 3.15 P.M. the coastguard reported distress signals from a fishing boat which was rapidly drifting out to sea before a strong E.S.E. wind. The sea was choppy. The motor life-boat Richard...
Eastern Princess
RECORD NUMBER LANDED Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 10.2 on Tuesday the 2nd of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the pleasure boat Eastern Princess, of Yarmouth, had run aground in...
Magpie
On the afternoon of the 24th September the life-boat coxswain saw a small yacht crossing the Outer Sand. A strong S.S.E. gale was making, with a heavy sea and rain squalls. The coxswain kept watch on the yacht. He saw a sail carried away by...
Alsatia
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 6.17 on the evening of the 31st of August, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that the sailing dinghy Alsatia had capsized one mile south of the pier and that her crew of three were in the water. The life-boat...
Cordelia II
Moelfre, Anglesey - At 3.7 p.m. on i oth September, 1966, the coastguardinformed the honorary secretary that the motor yacht Cordelia II was in difficulties six miles north of Puffin Island with both engines broken down. The life-boat Watkin...
Rosita
HARWICH.— On the 6th January, at about 7.30 A.M., a brigantine was seen ashore on the Ealliday Sands with a flag of distress flying. In a short time she drifted on to Pye Sand, where the masts were cut away. The Life-boat Springwell...
A Ship
JUNE 18TH and 19TH. - ST. HELIER, JERSEY. During the afternoon of the 18th of June a ship had been reported to be on fire about eight miles to the south-south-west of St. Helier Harbour, but the life-boat couldfind nothing. It was thought to...
South African (1)
FORMBY AND NEW BRIGHTON. The barque South African, of Belfast, bound from Eio Grande for the Mersey with a cargo of bone ash, stranded on Taylor's Bank in a strong W. wind with a heavy sea on the llth April. On the vessel being observed...
Fishing Boats (2)
NOVEMBER 14TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Early in the morning the local fishing fleet had put to sea in moderate weather, but by noon an east-north-east gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. Four motor fishing vessels were seen to...
Pudge
Margate, Kent. At 8.12 on the morn- ing of the 29th of July, 1960. the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a barge was flying the international code flag F, indicating she was disabled, four miles east-north-east of Margate...