LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M.S. Hastings
SEPTEMBER 14TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
An officer of H.M.S. Hastings asked the honorary secretary of the life-boat station if the life-boat could be used to take out thirty seamen, who had been stranded ashore. The warship was...
The S.S. Dunkery Beacon, of London
DECEMBER 19TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
Information was received from the coastguard at 12.10 in the morning that a ship in the harbour was showing signals of distress and at 12.25 the motor life-boat Crawford and Constance...
Gem, of Crail
AUGUST 28TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
At 2.30 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a fishing boat, off Fifeness, making heavy weather. A south-easterly gale was blowing, the sea was very rough, and wind and sea were...
The S.S. Firth Fisher
MAY 22ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 2.30 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a steamer anchored near the South Goodwins had on board four survivors from the S.S. Firth Fisher, of Barrow. She had been mined and had sunk. The...
A Fishing Coble
The Life-boat B. Wood, stationed at this place, went out on the 6th Feb., to rescue the crew and some fishermen who were on board the Nor- wegian ship Martha, which had stranded three days previously off Hornsea. The men were engaged...
Boadicea
At 9.30 P.M. on the 26th September a vessel was ob- served making signals of distress on the Barber Sands. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden were immediately assembled and the boat launched. She found the steam drifter Boadicea,...
Unity
During a strong N.E. gale in the evening of 8th January one of the anchor chains, to which the schooner Unity, of Carnarvon, was lying at anchor in a dangerous part of Fishguard Bay, parted. There were four persons on board the schooner, and...
A Small Boat
MAROONED ON THE ROCKS Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 1.43 in the afternoon of April the 22nd, 1947, the Ballycastle coastguard reported that a man, who had been missing in a small boat since the 20th had been reported on the Maidens Rocks,...
Hyskeir II
Way, Inner Hebrides.—At 10.35 on the night of the 23rd of July, 1949, the Southend coastguard reported a tele- phone message from the Isle of Gigha that the motor yacht Hyskeir II, of Greenock, was aground on a reef to the north of...
A Sailing Dinghy
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 3.55 in the afternoon of the 4th of September, 1949, some holiday visitors reported that a boat with a man and a small girl on board was on the rocks at the foot of Creadon cliffs. At 4.10 the life-boat...