LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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The Motor Life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched at 8.20 P.M. on 15th April, as the Coastguard had reported that the Nore Lightvessel was firing distress signals. A strong N.E. wind was blowing with a heavy sea. The...
Sceptre
JANUARY 6TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 5.15 P.M. information was received from an escort vessel, through the coastguard, that a fishing boat was in distress seven miles to the N.E. It was very cold, with a moderate wind and sea. At 5.45 P...
SURFER TRAPPED IN RIP
BANTHAM | 4 MAY
Lifeguards at Bantham, Devon, were among the first to start their patrols this year, and they were called into action on 4 May when a surfer was caught in a rip current. Two lifeguards...
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Margarethe
While a strong W.N.W. gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy broken sea, on the llth May, the barque Margarethe, of Borgo, Finland, bound from Fleetwood for Canada, stranded on Barnard's Wharf. The Life-boat Maude Pickup was launched...
Jean Horsley
Seaham, Durham.—At 3.42 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that the fish- ing boat Jean Horsley, which had a crew of five, had broken down off Crimdon, about eight miles south of Seaham. At four o'clock...
Stormcock
FOUR MEN AND TWO WOMEN DRIFTING Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.—At 7.0 in the evening of the 17th of May, 1947, a resident at Sandbay telephoned that a cabin cruiser was drifting and making distress signals in the...
Fishing Boats
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.45 on the morning of the 18th of September, 1952, a fishing-boat skipper reported that the life-boat would be needed to escort the herring fleet into harbour.
A strong northerly wind was blowing with...
Inschallah
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.16 on the morning of the llth of August, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a distress signal had been seen two miles south of Portland Bill. At 3.40 the life-boat William and Clara Kyland put out in a...
Glebe
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.30 on the night of the 2nd of October, 1948, the local sailing club telephoned that the club secretary had gone out for a sail at 4 o'clock that afternoon in his yacht Glebe, but had not been seen since, and at...
Secunda
At 1 a.m. on 17th May, 1969, it was reported that a red flare had been sighted three to four miles from Deal coastguard lookout. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 1.19. The tide was ebbing. At 1.44 the life-boat...