LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sirius (1)
The local motor fishing boat Sirius, with two men aboard, which the life-boat had saved from destruction a few days earlier, got into difficulties again on the 2nd March. She was fishing about two miles north-east of Dunmore when her...
Oyster Catcher
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 1.50 in the afternoon of the 8th of June, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that a small yacht had capsized two OT three miles out, south of the Medusa Buoy, and the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. left her...
Guernsey Coast
MOTOR VESSEL REFLOATED Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 7.20 in the morning of the 27th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Guernsey Coast, of London, was ashore five miles north-east of North Foreland with her steering...
A Lobster Fishing Boat
LOBSTER BOAT DRIFTING IN A GALE Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—During the morning of the 20th of November, 1947, the relatives of two local men who had put out in a lobster fishing boat, reported that they were overdue and as a moderate south...
Adventurer
FISHING BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Galway Bay.—At 1.30 in the afternoon of the 20th of December, 1947, in a strong north-westerly breeze, with a rough sea, the motor life-boat K.E.C.F.
was returning from Baltimore to Valentia...
None (1)
Penlee, Cornwall. — Owing to the prolonged bad weather at the end of January and the beginning of February, it had been impossible to relieve the keepers of the Wolf Rock Lighthouse, and the relief was so long overdue that they had run very...
Dunlin
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.35 in the morning of the 8th of August, 1948, the Trinity House vessel Patricia, which had been sheltering in Lancresse Bay, asked for the help of the life-boat in towing the auxiliary yacht Dunlin, of...
Maybird
On the afternoon of the 13th June the civic guard at Wexford telephoned that a fishing boat was in distress in the North Bay. A strong southerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy showers. The motor life-boat K.E.C.F. put out at...
None (8)
St. Mary's, Ides of Scilly.—On the night of the 24th February two doctors, who are members of the local committee, told the honorary secretary that they had examined a serious appendicitis case, and had decided that the man must be got...
Water Nymph
Wells, Norfolk.—At 7 A.M. on the 24th May the motor cruiser Water Nymph left Wells for Boston, in charge of the life-boat's second-coxswain and another man. Later on the coastguard reported that she was flying distress signals, and the...