LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary Ann
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 9.5 on the night of the 23rd of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a message re- received from Sandwich that a fishing boat was drifting on a lee shore a mile north of Guildford Hotel. Five minutes later,...
Rowena
Appledore, Devon.—At 11.5 in the morning, on the 17th of January, 1951, a motor barge was seen burning flares off Crow Point. At 11.15 the life-boatViolet Armstrong was launched in a very rough sea with a north-westerly- gale blowing. She...
Fishing Boats
Sheringham, Norfolk. — During the morning of the 7th of May, 1951, five local fishing boats put out; and as one of them was going back the weather got worse. The sea was also getting stronger and the wind increased. So, as one of the four...
Ebor Jewel
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.45 in the afternoon of the 17th of December, 1947, the Port War Signal Station telephoned that a vessel, three miles south of Spurn Point, was making distress signals, and the motor life-boat City of...
A Small Boat
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.— At 11.10 on the night of the 3rd of September, 1948, a message came from The Mumbles, through Burnham Radio, that a small boat, with two men on board, was drifting in distress toward the Mixen Shoal, off Mumbles...
Melrose
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At two in the afternoon of the 14th of October, 1948, information was received that the motor trawler Melrose, of Kilmore, had broken her propeller shaft and was drifting towards the shore two and a half...
Providence
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At four in the, afternoon of the 2nd of January, 1949, the coastguard reported that red flares had been burned by the local motor fishing boat Providence, about three miles to the southward, and the life- boat Mary Ann...
Fishing Cobles (1)
SEVEN AT SEA Whitby, Yorkshire. At 1.30 p.m. on 2oth November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that seven fishing cobles were at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather. There was a strong gale from the north with a rough...
Brighter Dawn, Cathleen and Golden Gleam
Boulmer, Northumberland.—At 9.3 on the morning of the 9th of September, 1954, a man at Alnmouth reported that the fishing cobles Brighter Dawn, Cath- leen, and Golden Gleam, of Boulmer, appeared to be in difficulties in Aln- mouth Bay. At...
Fishing Boats (2)
Arbroath, Angus.—Early on the'morn- ing of the llth of November, 1954, the local fishing fleet put out, but the sea became very rough. The boats made for harbour again, but were unable to enter because the tide was too...