LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Thomas Masterman Hardy
On the closing of the Lyme Regis Life-boat Station the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Thomas Masterman Hardy was to be returned to London, by rail from Weymouth. She left Lyme Regis for Weymouth at 8 P.M. on the 10th November. At daybreak on...
Sabina
Just after 5 P.M. on the 3rd February the coxswain was told that the coble Sabina, with two men aboard, had not returned to harbour. A moderate S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, and it was thought advisable to send out the motor...
Ethel
On the 16th April, while a moderate gale was blowing from S. by W. with a rough sea, the trawler Ethel, of Great Yarmouth, anchored about 1J miles N.
of the harbour awaiting the tide. When the flood tide had made she got...
Johan
DUNBAR. — At about half-past six o'clock on the morning of the llth March the Coastguards observed a small open boat in a perilous position, it being impossible for her to succeed in reaching the harbour owing to the rough state of the...
Camilla
SKEGNESS.—The brigantine Camilla, of Laurvig, being seen to take the ground on the Boghead Sands on the evening of the 2ud April, and a few minutes afterwards burn flare-up lights, the Life-boat Ann, John and Mary was launched and proceeded...
Silver Wave
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man - At 4.30 p.m. on 28th March, 1970, the life-boat's motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was signalling for assistance off Scarlet point. After confirmation from the coastguard the...
Lively Lady
Moelfre, Anglesey - At 3.17 p.m. on 26th April, 1970, it was learnt that the 22 foot Bermuda-rigged yacht Lively Lady was in difficulties three miles south of the life-boat house and was firing distress signals. The lifeboat Watkin Williams...
Gypsy
At 7.30 a.m. on 12th April, 1970, the coastguard reported that a sailing yacht three miles north ofPoint Lynas was in difficulties. The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched at 7.40. There was a south easterly gale with a rough sea. The...
A Cabin Cruiser
Workington, Cumberland - At 6.31 p.m. on 12th April, 1970, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser with a crew of two was in difficulties half a mile off shore. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX slipped her...
Perichole
At 9.35 p.m. on 3rd September, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sloop anchored near Penman point was being buffeted by gale force winds and that anxiety was felt for her safety in the fading light. The life-boat...