LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Puffin III
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 12.5 in the afternoon of the 27th of March, 1949, the Portland Bill coastguard reported a small motor yacht in distress, apparently broken down and drifting.
Twenty minutes later the life-boat William...
The Rock Lightvessel
The Cox- swain was informed at 5.50 P.M. on the 15th November that the Barrels Rock Light-vessel had fired a rocket, and the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat John Dunn was launched in a strong S.E. breeze with a rough sea. She found that the...
None (4)
Galway Bay. At 7.15 on the morning of the 26th of February, 1959, the local doctor requested the use of the life- boat to take a child, who had pushed a nail up his nostril, to the mainland for hospital treatment. The life-boat Mabel Marion...
Winifred
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 9.17 on the morning of the 6th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties off Beachy Head. At 9.36 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched in a very rough sea. A...
Isabella (1)
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 1.45 on the after- noon of the 2nd of October. 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that a local man had put off in his fishing coble Isabella to attend to his crab-pots in bad weather. The weather was deteri- orating...
Fishing Boats (1)
Arbroath, Angus.—About 11.45 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1952, the coastguard reported that fishing boats were still at sea in deteriorating weather and that conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous. The life-boat Robert...
A Fishing Coble
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1952, a local fishing coble was known to be at sea in bad weather, but noth- ing could be seen of her. At 2.45 the life-boat Howard D was launched. The sea was rough...
Isabella
Filey, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 15th of September, 1953, the local fishing coble Isabella put to sea with a crew of three to work her crab pots near Brig buoy. The weather was bad, and at 10.50 it was decided to launch the...
None (7)
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 12.59 early on the moring of the 3rd of March, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the North Goodwin lightvessel had reported flares between the light- vessel and North Foreland. At 1.30 the life-boat Michael and Lily...
Sandling
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.56 on the morning of the llth of August, 1957, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in distress off the Shivering Sands towers. At 5.30 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No.
30)...