LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sarba
During a severe gale, with the wind reaching seventy miles an hour, the motor life- boat Frederick H. Pilley was launched at 2.30 A.M. on the 19th October, informa- tion having been received from the Wyre light-keepers that a vessel was...
A Motor Boat
Swanage, Dorset.—-On the afternoon of the 23rd March the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat had broken down one mile south of Southbourne coastguard station, and that another motor boat, which had put out from Bournemouth to help her,...
A Motor Boat and Mary
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — On the afternoon of the 19th August the signalman reported that two boats were in distress between the pier and-Chapman light, off Canvey Island. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain....
A Yacht
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of September, 1960, a message was received that a small yacht with two people on board had been seen drifting ashore on Traigh Sands eight miles from Mallaig....
Tanga
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 12.16 on the afternoon of the 20th of February, 1957, a telephone message was received from the east pier that a tug was aground on Brake Sands. Nine minutes later the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a rough...
S.S. Georgios Kyriakides
J ULY 1 0 T H. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. During the morning news was received from the intelligence officer, Cork, that a ship’s life-boat wasdrifting helplessly about thirteen miles south of Galley Head Lighthouse. A moderate...
Sancho Panza
HARWICH. — The schooner Sancho Panza, of Faversham, coal-laden from Sander land for Ramsgate, broke adrift from her anchors in a whole gale from N.E. and a very heavy sea, and stranded on the Fye Sands on the morning of the 23rd January. She...
Proba
The schooner Proba, of Dartmouth, whilst bound to Dublin with a cargo of malt, stranded on the 21st January not far from the Life-boat house, and in re- sponse to the signal which she made shortly before stranding, the Life-boat Oldham...
The Cooperative Bank
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The Nile
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At about 5.30 A.M.
on the 29th October, during a strong breeze from the W.S.W.,and thick weatheraccompanied by rain, rockets were fired from the Cross Sand Light-vessel. The Caister No. 2 Life-boat Godsend...