LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Boats Easter Morn, Gem, Pilot Me, Jessie Ann, and Mona
FEBRUARY 11TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning the fishing boats went to sea. The sea got up and made it very dangerous for the boats to cross the bar on their return. At 2.45 in the afternoon the No. 1 motor...
A Dinghy (3)
JULY 27TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
At 5.15 in the afternoon signals of distress were seen from Benllech and at 5.30 the motor life-boat G.W. was launched. The sea was rough, with a strong south-westerly wind blowing. The...
Fishing Boats (1)
SEPTEMBER 18TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At six in the afternoon Whitby fishing boats and boats of the Scottish fishing fleets put out in moderate weather, but by nine o’clock it had worsened and the boats turned back. A strong...
A Longshore Rowing Boat
NOVEMBER 17TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. At 12.20 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a longshore rowing boat was having difficulty in making the harbour. A fresh southerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor...
Annie Cargill
MARCH 10TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.
At 5.5 P.M. the coastguard reported that the local motor fishing boat, Annie Cargill, was in difficulties and drifting rapidly towards the rocks half a mile east of Arbroath harbour.
Gem
DIFFICULT TOWS Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.5 in the morning of the 28th of November, 1947, the life-boat coxswain picked up a message on his wireless from the local motor fishing vessel Gem, that her rudder had been broken, and the No. 1 motor...
San Toy
Margate, Kent.—At about 9.50 A.M.
on the 25th April the coastguard telephoned that a motor yacht was introuble and was drifting ashore. She was the San Toy, of London, bound there from Ramsgate, with a man and a boy on...
The Sailing Barge Lord Churchill, of Faversham
Margate, Kent.—At 12.30 P.M. on the 5th December, 1937, information was received that a barge flying a distress signal had been seen by the coastguard about three miles east of Reculvers.
The motor life-boat Lord...
Amy II (2)
Torbay, Devon.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1950, the Brixham coastguard reported a small yacht in a dangerous position two miles off Beesands, apparently in need of help. At 12.55 the life-boat George Shee...
Dawn
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1956, the coastguard tele- phoned that H.M.S. Mull of Gallorvay had seen a small vessel in need of help a mile and a half north of the Rough Towers. At 4.12 the...