LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Northness
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 7.15 in the morning of the 27th of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore a mile west of Rue Point, and a few minutes later she was reported to be blowing S.O.S. on her whistle. The motor...
A Motor Launch
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. -— On the afternoon of the 2nd September the coxswain, who knew that the motor launch which attends on the residents of Steep Holm Island was away at the island, kept a look out for her, as a fresh S.S.E. breeze...
The S.S. Kardesler
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 4.57 in the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had warned off a steamer which was in a dangerous place, and at 5.17 he tele- phoned again that she had...
Elizabeth Taylor
Cullercoats, Northumberland. — At eleven o'clock on the morning of the of the 3rd of July, 1955, the beach superintendent at Whitley Bay rang up the life-boat coxswain to say that a boat had burnt flares in Whitley Bay and appeared to be...
None (1)
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1957, the coxswain was told by telephone that a girl bather was being carried out to sea on the ebb tide at the estuary of the Red Wharf Bay River. Fifteen minutes later the...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 8.15 p.m. on 26th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat about one mile north of Pirnmill with two men on board appeared to be drifting towards Loch Ranza. At 8.35 the life...
Comforter
CLACTON-ON-SEA. — In response to messages by telephone and signal guns fired from the Swin Middle Light-Vessel, on the morning of the 22nd March, the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 8.50 and found the brig Comforter, of Tonsberg,...
Wavehopper
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 11.30 on the night of the 27th of May, 1955, a man at Rock telephoned that his son had come ashore in a dinghy from his motor launch Wavehopper and had reported that the launch had broken down off The Mouls with four...
Harry Richardson
Caister, Norfolk. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1960, the life-boat mechanic noticed a vessel apparently aground on the north end of Scroby Sands. There was a moderate south-easterly wind and sea, and the tide...
Benari
Margate, Kent. At 1.44 on the after- noon of the 24th July, 1961, the coast- guard told the coxswain that a yacht had grounded on the Hook sands and that her crew of four were trying to refloat her. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil...