LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Baldur
KINGSDOWN, KENT.—At 9.20 A.M. on the 13th April signals were fired by the South Sands Head Light-vessel indicating that a vessel was in distress on the Goodwin Sands. The crew of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave were quickly mustered and the...
The S.S. East Indian
On 7th October a wireless message was received from the s.s. East Indian, of Detroit, U.S.A., that she was putting into Stornoway, as one of her crew had been severely injured. When she arrived, shortly before four on the morning of the 8th,...
Volant
The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, John Cleland, was launched at 10.30 P.M. on the 23rd December, 1931, in a strong S.S.W.
breeze, with a rough sea, as the Coast- guard had reported that a schooner was in distress in the...
Kingfisher, Morning Star and S. B. Colling
Three local fishing cobles, Kingfisher, Morning Star and S. B. Colling, went out crabbing on the morning of the 10th February. Shortly afterwards the sea became rough and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched to their help. A...
Wild Rose
About midday on the 13th July a telephone message was received from the Foreland light- house that a small boat was in distress off the Foreland. A strong and in- creasing W.S.W. breeze was blowing, and a rough sea was getting up. The...
Maid of Erin
On the evening of the 30th November the herring drifter Maid of Erin, of Porta- vogie, returning to port from herring fishing, had engine trouble when about two miles N.E. of Maryport. She carried a crew of four. She dropped her anchor,...
Peggy
Bridlington,* Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 17th January the motor fishing boat Peggy left Bridlington harbour to fish about eight miles out.
Later a gale sprang up from the S.S.E.
and the sea became...
The Humber Lightvessel
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.45 P.M.
on the 17th December, 1937, the lifeboat watchman reported two rockets in a south-easterly direction. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, and squalls of rain and sleet.<...
A Small Boat
Barra Island, Hebrides.—A whole N.W.
gale suddenly sprang up at about 1 P.M. on the 15th January, 1938, and fear was felt for the safety of the small boat, manned by four men, which attended the Barra Head...
Innishowen
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 11.15 P.M.
on the 9th January a message was picked up from the motor vessel Innishowen, of Chester, asking for the life-boat to convey an injured man ashore. With a crew of four she was bound with pig...