LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Royal Air Force Launch
.—On the 21st Septem- ber one of two Royal Air Force launches which were on passage from Calshot to Felixstowe had trouble with her engine about two miles S.W. of the Admiralty Pier, Dover. The other launch made for Dover and telephoned to...
The Fishing Boats, Mizpah and Norseman
Two local motor fishing boats, Mizpah and Norse- man, put to sea early on the morning of 1 st December. Later a strong southerly breeze sprang up, reaching gale force in squalls, and a rough sea, with broken water, was running across the...
A Fishing Boat (2)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.5 P.M.
on the 29th April, 1938, a message was received from the pierhead that a small open fishing boat was in distress off South Shoebury Buoy. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
Peggy (1)
New Quay and Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.
—At 1.40 P.M. on the 31st May, 1938, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Peggy, of New Quay, with two men on board, had put out at 2 A.M.
and was long...
The S.S. Cilburnum
During a whole S.W. gale with a rough sea and very heavy rain, information was received from the Torquay Coastguard at about midnight on 10th November that the s.s. Cilburnum, of Bilbao, which was sheltering in the Bay, was dragging her...
Ethel and Mother's Joy
The Coastguard reported about 4 P.M. on 4th December that the two local fishing boats Ethel and Mother's Joy were in distress ofi Seaham, and a few minutes later the Motor Life-boat Elliot Galer put out.
A whole...
None (4)
A private resident of Paignton telephoned to the Coastguard on the night of 27th April that he had seen a rocket about three miles east of Paignton Head. He thought that it had been fired from a boat in trouble eastward of a line from Berry...
Colleen
At 10.30 P.M.
on the 13th August the Coxswain received a message that a small yacht with two men on board was' in distress in the bay. A strong S.E. breeze was blowing with a rough sea and heavy...
Dorothy
On the night of the 20th October the fishing boat Wenden came in and reported that the motor fishing boat Dorothy was in trouble off Berry Head, with her propeller fouled by nets. Her two occupants had asked for the motor trawler Cygnet to...
Irene
The Motor Life- boat George Shee was launched at 4.45 A.M. on the 26th November, as a telephone message had been received from the Coastguard that a fishing boat, about two miles south of Combe Point, was burning flares. A strong W. breeze...