LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht (1)
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 1.58 on the morning of the 9th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small yacht from Moville was overdue. After further enquiries had been made the life-boat Lady Scott (Civil...
French Life-Boat Disaster
THE life-boat Vice-Amiral Schwerer stationed at Etel in France capsized near the entrance to Lorient harbour on the 3rd of October, 1958. Her whole crew of five, consisting of the coxswain, mechanic, radio-operator and two other members of...
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A Fishing Boat
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—On the morning of the 18th of October, 1955, five men put off in a fishing boat to go to Barrahead to ferry sheep to Mingulay, but the weather worsened during the day and their families became anxious. At 4.30...
Seaflower
NETS WERE FAST Boulmer, Northumberland. At 10.50 a.m. on lyth August, 1964, the coxswain asked the honorary secretary if the local fishing coble Seaflower needed help and the honorary secretary kept watch on the boat in Alnmouth bay. She...
The Cuttle
RESERVE LIFE-BOAT Humber, Yorkshire. At 1.30 p.m. on 4th October, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that the reserve life-boat The Cuttle had broken down in a slight sea and gentle southeasterly wind five miles north of...
A Rubber Dinghy
Appledore, Devon.—Just before noon on the 12th of June, 1950, the Northam Burrows coastguard reported a rubber dinghy drifting to sea with two men aboard. At 12.5 the life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched in a slight sea with an easterly...
Kaylena
Newhaven, Sussex. — About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1950, information was received that a small motor boat seemed to need help, one mile off Cuckmere Haven, At 3.20 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was...
A Fishing Punt
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 11.35 on the morning of the llth of December, 1950, a local fishing punt was seen flying an oilskin coat from an oar two miles north-east of Ballycotton Har- bour. Ten minutes later the life-boat Mary...
Miriam Thomas
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—On the 9th January the collier Miriam Thomas, of Liverpool, broke from her moorings during a whole S.S.W. gale, with a rough sea, and drifted broadside on towards a dangerous lee. shore. At 3.30 P.M. the motor life-boat...
Rally, of Selsey
Selsey, Sussex.—On the morning of the 23rd July the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was in distress about half a mile N.W. of Selsey Bill. A strong S. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was...