LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Fishing Cobles of Flamborough, The Doreen May and The Pioneer
NOVEMBER 7TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Two fishing cobles of Flamborough, the Doreen May and the Pioneer, were fishing off Flamborough Head. The weather was getting worse, and by eleven in the morning a north-easterly gale was blowing, with...
Five Fishing Boats
MARCH. 8TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE. During the morning a strong W.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and the fresh water from the flooded river Girvan was making the harbour bar extremely dangerous. Five fishing boats from Girvan and two...
Landing Craft
AUGUST 29TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 10.45 P.M. the resident naval officer asked that the life-boat crew should stand by, and at 11.20 P.M. the motor lifeboat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched to take out an officer, who was...
A Boat (3)
NOVEMBER 10TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
Just before seven in the evening a message was received from the representative of a salvage company which was engaged in breaking up the wreck of the S.S. Marie Chandris, off Amsterdam...
Lena, of Waterford
NOVEMBER 16TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. At 3.35 in the afternoon coastwatchers at Brownstown Head saw a boat in difficulties in Tramore Bay and informed the life-boat station. A strong south-south-east wind was blowing, with a very...
The S.S. Oil Trader
AUGUST 11TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK. At 11.56 A.M. the coastguard reported that enemy aircraft were attacking shipping some seven miles S.E. of Aldeburgh.
A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. A few minutes...
A Steam Trawler
MARCH 29TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. At 10.30 in the morning the honorary secretary was on watch on the cliffs above Ballycotton when he saw a steam trawler about eight and a half miles south of Ballycotton. She was blowing off steam, as if...
Happy Days
Margate, Kent.—At 8.6 in the morning of the 12th of August, 1948, information was received from S.S. Holdernene, through North Foreland Radio and the coastguard, that a motor launch was in need of help near the Elbow...
Mary B. Mitchell, of Dublin
DECEMBER 15TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
At five in the afternoon the Ross Lighthouse reported by telephone that a vessel appeared to be drifting, but was not showing any distress signals. A south-easterly gale was blowing, with a...
Daleby
DECEMBER 5-6TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. AND HARTLEPOOL. DURHAM.
At 5 P.M. a message was received from the Port War Signal Statlon at South Gare, that a vessel was ashore on the North Gare a n d might have to be abandoned....