LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Launch
Falmouto, Cornwall.—At one o'clock in the morning of the 18th of June, 1948, a woman reported that her hus- band and another man had put out fishing in a motor launch the previous morning and had not returned. At 1.30 the motor life-boat...
H.M.S. Caledonia
Anstruther, Fifeshire. — About 10.30 in the morning of the 1st of August, 1949, the coastguard reported that naval boats were in a dangerous posi- tion off West Wemyss, and at 10.40 the life-boat Nellie and Charlie was launched. A very...
Flylyte
Margate, Kent.—About seven o'clock in the evening of the 7th of August, 1949, the coastguard reported a motor yacht ashore on Margate Sands four and a half miles north-west of the lookout, and the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil...
Taranaki
Torbay, Devon. — At 10.15 in the morning of the 30th of March, 1952, the life-boat shore attendant reported that a ship at the mouth of Torbay had asked for a pilot. The breeze from the east-north-east was moderate, but the sea was rough and...
Elsie
Workington, Cumberland. — At 7.50 in the evening of the 21st of June, 1952, a report was received through the coastguard that a boat was in dis- tress about three miles north-east of Whitehaven, and at 8.15 the life-boat N.T. was launched....
The S.S. Clonlee
Workington, Cumberland. — On the 10th of July, 1952, the S.S. Clonlee, which had arrived off Workington from Algiers, laden with iron ore, radioed that she was short of food and asked for provisions. Her agents asked if the life-boat would...
None (1)
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 10th of Novem- ber, 1952, a doctor asked if the life-boat would take a patient, who was serious- ly ill, to Lochboisdale. Conditions were not good enough for an aircraft to make...
Bankville
Barrow, Lancashire.—-At 7.5 on the evening of the 20th of December, 1952, the Walney Island coastguard tele- phoned that the coaster Bankville, of Liverpool, was in distress with a shifted cargo ten miles west of Walney lighthouse. At 7.30...
The S.S. Henriette Schulte
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.45 on the even- ing of the 10th of February, 1953, local shipping agents telephoned that a man had fallen down the hold of the S.S. Henriette Schulte, of Emden, seriously injuring himself, and asked if the life-boat would...
The Bermuda Sloop-Rigged Yacht Astral
Douglas, Isle of Man.—About two o'clock on the afternoon of the 1st of June, 1953, the harbour master received a message from the S.S.
Snaefell, of Douglas, that she was standing by the Bermuda sloop-rigged yacht Astral...