LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sorfareren
At about 6 A.M.
on llth November a message was received stating that a ship was dragging her anchors in the vicinity of Peterskerry, and required the Life-boat.
The crew of the Life-boat John A. Hay were...
Water Music
Dover, Kent.—At 2.18 on the after- noon of the 14th of May, 1955, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had been reported in difficulties in Wear Bay. At 2.30 the life-boat E.M.E.D., on temporary duty at the station, put out....
Elsie
Poole, Dorset.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th of August. 1954, a report was received that three boys in a cabin cruiser in Poole harbour were waving a white sheet. At 4.5 the life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched. The...
Teresa
At 5 P.M. on the 15th October information was received from the coastguard that a vessel in the Gore Channel was flying a distress signal. The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 5.20 P.M., and found the...
Lass o' Doon
On the 5th December, at 3 A.M., the schooner Lass o' Doon, of Montrose, bound from Sunderland to Montrose, got ashore" on the Annat Bank, off this port, in a snowstorm, the wind being at S.S.E. with considerable sea on.
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Marina
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 5.9 on the afternoon of the 23rd of June, 1955, the coastguard told the second cox- swain that a yacht was in difficulties south of Pakefield church, two miles south-south-west of the coastguard station. Eight minutes...
Thelma
The Life- boat Mary Batger was launched shortly after noon on the 19th August to the assistance of the pleasure coble Thelma, of Saltburn, which had put to sea with three persons on board. A N.W. gale suddenly sprang up, making the coble...
Fredanja
DECEMBER 16TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
At 10.5 A.M. a vessel was reported to be ashore between Annan and Carlisle. Enquiries were made, and another message was received that the vessel was ashore at Powfoot, Annan. At 12.10...
Merry Thought
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—The motor lifeboat Agnes Cross left harbour at 2 P.M.
on the 30th May, 1938, for exercise, going in the direction of the East Newcombe Buoy. A whole W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. A trawler was...
A Sailing Boat
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 25th of Septem- ber, 1955, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a sailing boat had cap- sized off Buley Beach between. Pol- kerris and Par. Four people were clinging to her bottom. At 3.25...