LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat Named Joan
The motor life- boat City of Bradford I, on relief duty at this station, was launched at 8.25 A.M. on the 14th May, as the second motor mechanic had seen a small boat in danger about three and a half miles S.S.W. of the look-out. A strong...
The S.S. Anversville
Dungeness, Kent.—During the night of the 9th April a message was received from the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station, Dungeness, that a large steamer was ashore near the point. She was the s.s. Anversville, of Antwerp, with about 200 persons...
Atlantic
Salcombe, Devon. — At 9.20 in the morning, on the 17th of April, 1950, the Greystones coastguard reported that a motor fishing boat seemed to be in difficulties three and a half miles west of Bolt Head. At 10.9 the life- boat Samuel and...
Windward
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—Just before six o'clock on the evening of the 6th August, 1950, the yacht Windward, of Helvick, with a crew of three, was seen to strike the Dungarvan Harbour Bar near Ballinacourty Point and heel over. At...
Amy II (1)
Ramsgate, Kent. •— At 6.40 on the morning of the 12th of October, 1950, the East Pier Watchman telephoned that the Dutch yacht Amy II, which had left Ramsgate an hour earlier, had burned flares and was apparently aground in Pegwell Bay. At 6...
Merrimac, of New York
Barrow, Lancashire. — At three o'clock in the afternoon of the 15th of November, 1951, the agents of the tanker Merrimac, of New York, re- ported that she had wirelessed that she had a sick man on board in need of a doctor. She would be...
Jubilee
Early on the morning of the 6th June the small yacht Jubilee, of Fleetwood, with two men on board, sent up distress signals. She was in broken water about one and a half miles south of the life-boat station, and was dragging her anchor about...
The Sailing Boat Kandee
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.— At 11.5 on the morning of the 15th of July, 1954, the Coast Life-Saving Service reported that a wireless message had been received from the mail steamer Hibernia that a sailing boat had cap- sized off the Kish...
Lady Elizabeth
Margate, Kent.—At 4.50 on the after- noon of the 18th of May, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the police had reported that a dinghy had capsized and that two boys were in the water half a mile off Minnis Bay. At 5.1 the life-boat...
Gwylan
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1953, the life-boat Aguila Wren was launched for a routine exercise. She pa- trolled the area in which some dinghies were sailing in a local regatta, and about four...