LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Eleanor and Jane
Information was received at 4.30 P.M.
on the 4th of April, during a moderate N.W. breeze, that a schooner was ashore on the North Stack, and required immediate assistance. The Thomas Fielding Life-boat was quickly taken out...
Tender Florence
LYTHAM.—While the heavy gale was blowing on the 7th October, the steam tender Florence;, of Preston, was seen to part one of her chains and collide with another steamer, damaging both vessels.
The sea being very high, at...
Upton Castle
The 1 steam trawler Upton Castle ran on to i the rocks off Cresswell about 3 A.M.
The vessel's signal for assistance was heard, and the Life-boat Martha was made ready for launching. The launch was only accomplished...
Fishing Cobles
Early in the morn- ing of the 13th February twenty-two of the fishing-cobles put to sea in moderate weather. At about daybreak the wind backed into the E.S.E. and increased to a strong gale bringing up a very heavy sea. Ten of the cobles at...
A Small Boat (1)
Walmer, Kent.—At 2.20 P.M. on 19th August, the Deal coastguard telephoned that East Goodwin light-vessel had reported a small boat, about one mile E.S.E. of the light-vessel, in urgent need of help. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with...
Clarissa
Appledore, Devon.—On the afternoon of the 19th November a resident at Westward Ho telephoned that the motor trawler Clarissa, of Bideford, was burning red flares a short distance out from Westward Ho. The wind was only light, and the sea was...
Northern Coast, of Liverpool
Port Askaig, Islay— At 11 P.M. on the 5th December, during the height of a northerly gale, a steamer, bound north, stopped and signalled by morse to the life-boat station that a doctor was wanted. The weather was very cold, with heavy snow...
None
Penlee, Cornwall. — At 12.40 in the afternoon of the 7th of June, 1948, the Porthleven coastguard telephoned that a man was in the sea, shouting for help, eight hundred yards east of Porthleven pier. The motor life-boat W. and...
Kingfisher IV
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.16 in the afternoon of the 19th of De- cember, 1948, a motor vessel informed Niton Radio Station of a fishing boat in. need of help nearly three miles out from Shoreham in a south- easterly direction, and the...
A Motor Boat belonging to H.M.S. Fitzroy
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 10th May signals of distress were seen by the coastguard, and the reserve life-boat City of Bradford I, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 10.18 A.M. Visibility was poor, and a light E...