LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Steam Drifters and Five Motor Boats
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 6.15 A.M.
on the 28th March, 1939, a message was received from the Anstruther coastguard that there was a heavy swell at the harbour entrance and that the fishing fleet was returning. A moderate...
Express
FISHING BOAT BROKEN DOWN Flamborough, Yorkshire.—-At one o'clock in the morning of the 9th of May, 1947, the Bridlington coastguard reported that a fishing boat was over- due and the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albino, Whitley was...
Reine de la Mer
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 8.15 on the evening of the 23rd of March, 1955, a man reported that a small vessel had entered Porthcressa Bay, apparently on her way to St. Mary's for shelter.
He later said the...
Samli
On the 1st Septem- ber the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received that a motor boat with ten people on board was in distress and breaking up off West Wittering. A strong westerly breeze was blowing with a moderate sea. The...
Glenway
Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.10 on the night of the 6th of May, 1951, a resident of Newport Hemsby telephoned that a ship was ashore off Newport Hemsby.
So at 10.30 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched in a choppy sea, with a...
Loyang
MOTOR YACHT'S ENGINES FAILED Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 8.25 in the evening of the 6th of July, 1947, the Kingston-on-Sea coastguard tele- phoned information, received by the Worthing police from a resident, that he had seen a motor...
Peaceful
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—Just before four o'clock in the afternoon of the 29th of March, 1948, the coastguard reported a motor boat that appeared to be in difficulties off Lizard Point, Tresco. The wind was rising. By five...
A Fishing Boat
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—On the night of the 2nd of August, 1949, a moderately strong northerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and at 9.50 the coast- guard telephoned that a fishing boat appeared to be in difficulties and had...
Adventure
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 7.29 in the evening of the 21st of September, 1949, the coastguard telephoned a message from the Methil police that a boat, drifting three miles off East Wemyss, was making S.O.S. signals on a...
A Dinghy (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — At about 11.20 A.M. on the 3rd August information was received from the coastguard that a boat had capsized three miles W.
by S. of Clacton. A gusty W.N.W.
wind was blowing, with a...