LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Fishing Boat
Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—At 8 P.M.
on the 12th January, 1938, it was reported that one of the local motor fishing boats was in danger owing to a breakdown of her engine. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea....
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Galway Bay, Co. Gal way.—On the 3rd March, 1938, the honorary secretary, the Rev. Father Killeen, was weatherbound on the island of Inishmaan, and as his presence was essential at Kilronan, he sent a wireless message for the motor life-boat...
The Motor Fishing Boats Pilot Me and Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire.—As the tide ebbed during the afternoon of the 8th April, 1938, a rough sea began to break heavily outside the pier ends, making the harbour entrance dangerous. • A strong N.
breeze was blowing. The motor...
Fairwood
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 11.59 on the night of the 29th of July, 1956, it was reported that the yacht Fairwood was dragging her anchor close to the life-boat's moorings. The life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, put out. The sea...
Wisp
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. •— On Sunday the 10th September, 1939, the coastguard reported that the sailing yacht Wisp, of Shoreham, had capsized about one and a half miles to the south-ward of the harbour entrance. A fresh westerly wind was...
Two Vessels
Lowestoft, Suffolk, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—13th September, 1939. Early in the morning information was received that two vessels had been in collision off Lowestoft.
A N.E. gale was blowing with a rough...
Brevet
TWO YACHTS TOWED IN Margate, Kent.—About 8.0 in the evening of the 4th of April, 1947, the motor yacht Brevet with seven on board, broke away from her moorings alongside the pier with a rope round her propeller and began to drift. A strong...
Tarka
JUST IN TIME Weymouth, Dorset.—At 8.30 in the morning of the 26th of September, 1947, the Grove Point coastguard re- ported that a motor boat had broken down, and that signals were being made by the people on board. The motor life-boat...
Pioneer
TO THE HELP OF A COBLE Flamborongh, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 27th of October, 1947, the weather became bad while the local fishing coble Pioneer was at sea, andat 11.55 the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was...
Boy Arthur and Ocean Vanguard
Amble, Northumberland.—The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched at half past eleven in the morning of the 2nd of February, 1948, as two fishing cobles were overdue and a moderate west-south-west gale was blowing...