LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Open Boat
Montrose, Angus.—On the afternoon of the 22nd May three officers from the R.A.F. Training School were thrown into the sea by the swamping of their open boat when they were trying to cross the bar at the entrance to the River Southesk. The...
Swift
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 11.35 P.M. on the 16th April, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was in distress off Beachy Head, and as the Eastbourne life-boat was oft service for overhaul, the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian...
Comrade and Royal Empire
Whitby, Yorkshire. — During the morning of the 19th September, 1938, anxiety was felt for the safety of two local fishing cobles—the Comrade and the Royal Empire—which were at sea.
A dense fog had settled and there was a...
The Sailing Boat Taw
Ilfracombe, Devon. At 4.57 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sailing boat had capsized off Combe Martin. At 5.23 the life- boat Robert and Phemia Brown was launched in a...
A Boat
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 10.5 on the night of the 4th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with three people on board was drifting off Pen Anglas. The life-boat Howard Marryat was launched at 10...
Liver Bird
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—-At 2.45 in the afternoon of the 10th of April, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was in distress two miles north-by-west of Great Orme Lighthouse, and at 3.36 the life-boat Thomas and Annie...
The Sailing Boat Janet
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1952, the sailing boat Janet, racing with a crew of two about two hundred yards off shore, was seen to capsize, and the life-boat William Gammon—Manchester and...
The S.S. Alice of Bremen
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 10th of February, 1953, the Holy head coastguard tele- phoned that the S.S. Alice of Bremen, which had broken down and had been towed to Moelfre Bay by a pilot boat, was dragging...
Fishing Cobles
Newbiggin, Northumberland.—On the morning of the 14th of April, 1953, the life-boat bowman returned from fishing and reported that sea condi- tions to the northward were becoming bad. Five fishing cobles were still at sea, and at 9.30 the...
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Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 8.39 on the evening of the 24th of July, 1953, the Penmon coastguard rang up to say that two people were stranded on Puffin Island and were waving for help.
As the weather was too bad for a...