LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Guiding Star
HOLY ISLAND.—Great anxiety was felt here on the 16th February regarding one of the fishing-cobles, the Guiding Star, with four men on board, which had not returned to the harbour. Night was drawing near, the wind, which had sprung up...
Dorothea
The Life- boat James Stevens No. 14 left her moorings at 6.45 P.M. on the 27th April to go to the assistance of the barge Dorothea of Harwich, which was in difficulties about 1| mile from the Naze. Her sails had all been blown to pieces, her...
Pet
At 3.45 A.M.
on the 27th January the Coastguard reported that a vessel was burning signals of distress on the Newcombe Sands. The Life-boat Kentwell was despatched in tow of a tug and found the trawler Pet, of Lowestoft,...
Margaret Murray
— On the 23rd December, during a strong south-west- erly breeze and rough sea, the schooner Margaret Murray, of Padstow, stranded on a sandbank to the eastward of the harbour. As it was thought that, with the assistance of steam power, it...
A Fishing Boat (2)
Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 8 A.M. On the 27th April, 1939, a telephone message was received from the Fishery Bailiff asking for help for a fishing boat which was at sea off Weybourne three miles away. A strong, increasing N.E.
A Pile-Driver
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.20 P.M. on the 5th July, 1939, the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a pile-driver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderate squally S.S.\V. gale was blowing, with a rough breaking sea.
The...
Fishing Boats (1)
Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—On the 26th October, 1939, a whole N.E. by N.
gale was blowing, with a very rough sea in Eyemouth Bay. Four local fishing boats were waiting to enter the port.
The motor life-boat...
Southlands
SOLITARY WATCHMAN RESCUED Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 6.10 in the evening of the 16th of March, 1947, the motor life-boat Crawford and Con- stance Conybeare was launched to a ship on the rocks at St. Just, Falmouth Harbour. A strong westerly gale...
A Fishing Boat
NEARLY ON THE ROCKS Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 7.30 on the night of the llth of November, 1947, flares to the north of the harbour were seen, and the motor life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched at 7.40, in a southerly ' gale with a very rough...
The Motor Fishing Coble Helena
Whitby, Yorkshire. — During the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1948, a sudden storm sprang up and the local fishing fleet returned to har- bour, but the motor fishing coble Helena did not arrive, and about 3.45 the coastguard telephoned...