LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary Ann
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 9.5 on the night of the 23rd of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a message re- received from Sandwich that a fishing boat was drifting on a lee shore a mile north of Guildford Hotel. Five minutes later,...
Rowena
Appledore, Devon.—At 11.5 in the morning, on the 17th of January, 1951, a motor barge was seen burning flares off Crow Point. At 11.15 the life-boatViolet Armstrong was launched in a very rough sea with a north-westerly- gale blowing. She...
Dainty Lady
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the after- noon of the 16th of February, 1951, the local motor fishing vessel Dainty Lady was at sea. A fresh south-south- easterly breeze was blowing and there was a very heavy swell. At 1.5 the Dainty Lady...
Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.50 on the night of the 20th of April, 1948, the local motor fishing boat Provider, which had put out earlier to attend to crab pots, wirelessed for the life-boat.
The No. 2. pulling and sailing...
Roger
Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 8.57 on the night of the 13th of September, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was making lamp signals and burning flares about six miles to the south-south-east, and the motor life- boat Michael Stephens...
Paragon
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 27th of February, 1955, a flare was seen off Ireland's Eye. At six o'clock the life-boat R.P.L. was launched. The sea was choppy, a fresh southerly breeze was blowing, and the tide...
A Fishing Boat
Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 9.15 on the morning of the 17th May, 1961, when the life-boat Sarah Tilson was launched to go to the help of a drifting fishing boat, there was a light east-south- easterly wind with a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing...
Dark Horse
When the yacht Dark Horse was seen riding at anchor on 22nd June off the entrance to Portloe harbour, with one man aboard, she was in fact in difficulties.
The Falmouth, Cornwall, life-boat Lilla Manas, Douglas and Will...
A Motor launch
Poole, Dorset-At 7.15 p.m. on 2yth March, 1966, a motor launch with three members of the Parkstone Yacht Club on board, which was going to a yacht moored in the middle of the harbour, broke down and was in difficulties. There was a gale from...
Jim
Ramsgate, Kent - At 7.31 a.m. on 3rd November, 1968, the coastguard reported that flares had been seen in Sandwich bay at the entrance to the river Stour. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 7.40 in a southerly gale...