LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Whitby, Yorkshire.—In the early morning of the 8th of April, 1949, the local motor fishing boat Pilot Me II left for the fishing grounds, was over- taken by bad weather and decided to return to Whitby. At half past six the life-boat coxswain...

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.20 in the evening of the 7th of August, 1949, the landing stage reported a boat was making distress signals in the Rock Channel, and at 6.41 the No. 1 life-boat William and Kate Johnston left her moorings. A...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—The motor fishing boats Endeavour, Pilot Me and Success left harbour for the fishing grounds at about 4 A.M. on the 12th February, 1938. A few hours later the wind got up rapidly, and by 10 A.M.

a gale...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At about 11 A.M.

on the 30th September, 1938, the coastguard reported a motor launch broken down two and a half miles E.N.E. of Sizewell. About half an hour later she hoisted a signal of distress, and...

Cromer, Norfolk. — At 1.57 in the afternoon of the 19th of November, 1949, the coastguard- telephoned that the S.S. Suntrap, of London, had sig- nalled that she would arrive off Cromer about 3.15 and had asked for the life- boat to land a...

Whit by, Yorkshire.—About ten o'clock in the morning, on the 13th of March, 1950, the No. 1 life-boat crew assembled as three fishing vessels were approaching the harbour in bad weather. At 10.50 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...

Margate, Kent.— At 7.49 on the night of the 28th of January, 1951, the coastguard telephoned news from North Foreland Radio that a ship was aground on the east end of Margate Spit Sands. She was the S.S. Warren Field, of Liverpool,, on...

Padstow, Cornwall.—At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1951, the Trevose Head Coastguard tele- phoned that he could see an object which he thought was a Carley float, with someone on it waving, about four miles west of Lower...