LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Billow
Signals haviog been fired by the Nore Light-vessel on the morning of the 12th February, the crew of the same Lifeboat were summoned and proceeded to the head of the pier, a distance of about a mile and a half, where the boat is kept moored....
Ole Bull
At 7 A.M. on the 8th January a message was received that signal guns were being fired by j the Lightvessels which protect the .
Goodwin Sands. Orders were at once given for the Life-boat Bradford to...
Archglen and Empire Fabric
Dover, Kent.—At 6.40 in the morning of the 26th of October, 1949, the Eastern Arm signal station telephoned that a vessel was dragging her anchors at East Cliff, and at 7 o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings. A whole...
Wallaroo
Piel (Barrow), Lancashire.—On the 2nd September the yacht Wallaroo, which was pleasure-cruising with five people on board, was overtaken by bad weather. She got into difficulties and was eventually anchored in a dangerous position about two...
Shahjehan
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 3.27 on the morning of the 20th of June, 1955,the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the Galloper light- vessel had reported that a motor yacht two miles north-east of the light- vessel had fired red...
Deo Gratias and Motor Boat Bella Betty
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.35 on the morning of the 12th of October, 1952, a resident of Overton telephoned that a fishing boat had fired two red rockets and that her crew ap- peared to be trying to hold her on to Port Eynon Buoy. At...
Hilary Anne
Sheringham, Norfolk - At 9 p.m. on 29th January, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted one to two miles off Cley. The maroons were fired at 9.10. The life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd...
Siraly II
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 11.1 a.m. on 29th September, 1968, it was learnt that red flares had been sighted twomiles north east of Rhos point. At 11.37 the life-boat Har-Lil was launched in a fresh west north westerly breeze and a rough sea. The...
Yolande Annie
FOULED PROPELLER Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 7.25 p.m.
on 17th September, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed by the coastguard that a local fishing boat was towing a trawler and the help of the life-boat was being...
The Cutter-rigged Yacht Velma
YACHT TOWED CLEAR IN GALE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.55 on the evening of the llth August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had gone aground some thirty or forty yards off St. Osyth beach. Of her crew of...