LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Elsie
JUNE 25TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 7.13 P.M. a message was received from the Berry Head coastguard that a small boat, with two people on board, appeared to be in distress 2 miles S.W. by S. of the Torquay coastguard look-out hut. A W.N.W. breeze...
Maria
During a moderate S.E. wind at 6 A.M., on the llth September, the Bradford Life-boat and Vulcan steam-tug proceeded to sea in response to signal guns from the Gull Lightship, and found a barque riding near the North Sand Head, having been in...
Ocean Reaper
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 10.5 on the night of the 1st of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing vessel appeared to be in difficulties, and drifting, half a mile south-east of the breakwater, and at 10.40 reported that she was...
Joanna
Weymouth, Dorset. — At 4.3 on the afternoon of the 5th of September, 1952, news was sent by the Portland coastguard through the Wyke Regis coastguard that a yacht was burning red flares about five miles south-south- west of Portland Bill. A...
San Cirilo
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.5 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the tanker San Cirilo, of London, had asked for a doctor to attend a man suspected of having appendicitis. At 8.45 the life-boat...
Ramlah, Royal Empire, Sarah, Guide Me and Margaret
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 7.30 A.M. on the 22nd April, 1939, anxiety was being felt for the safety of some of the fishing cobles, as a very strong N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. As both life-boat coxswains, and a number of the...
H.M. Submarine Thetis
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—On the 1st June H.M. Submarine Thetis dived, while on trials in Liverpool Bay about fifteen miles from Llandudno, and did not come to the surface. On the following morning four survivors escaped by means of the...
Venus
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.9 on the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing vessel was burning flares north-north-east of Kettleness.
At 1.19 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...
Jezebel
At 5.41 p.m. on 8th September, 1966, a German ship reported that a French sailing yacht was leaking twenty nine miles south east of St.
Catherine's Point, and that the yacht could hold out for two to three hours by...
An Ex-R.N.L.I. Life-Boat
Angle, Pembrokeshire - 31st January, 1969, the coastguard reported that an ex-R.N.L.I. Jife-boat on passage from Newlyn to Rosslare had developed engine trouble and required life-boat assistance. The Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds...