LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Clacton Queen
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 10th August the paddle steamer Clacton Queen, of Rochester, left Clacton to visit Chatham, where Navy Week was being held. She carried a company of several hundred people. She did not return as expected, and...
Actuosity
— On the night of the 21st October the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station at Nells Point telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Colhugh Point, and the motor life-boat Prince David was launched at 10.50 p.m. A moderate to strong S.S.W. breeze...
Four Sons, Sarah Elizabeth and Betty II
At 7.30 A.M.
on the 5th November the local fishing cobles Four Sons, Sarah Elizabeth and Betty II put out to the fishing grounds During the morning the wind backed into the north-east and increased to a strong gale, with...
The Motor Fishing Boats Pilot Me and Success
The local motor fishing boats Pilot Me and Success put to sea early on the morning of the 5th December in moderate weather. Later the wind and sea rose, and as it had been raining heavily since the previous night, the river was running...
Shamrock
— Early on the morning of the 9th March the coast- guard reported that a barge was drag- ging her anchors and making distress signals west of Castletown pier, Port- land harbour. A strong east breeze was blowing with a rough sea. The weather...
Tocoba
EMPTY YACHT TOWED TO QUAY Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 19th June, 1962, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken adrift from her moorings at Knott End and was being carried out across...
Mercury
ESCORT FOR PLEASURE BOAT VISITING ISLANDS North Sunderland, Northumberland.
About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th June, 1962, the weather began to grow worse, and by 3.45 the sea had become very rough. The...
Pilica
ESCORT FOR POLISH VESSEL IN NEAR GALE Holyhead, Anglesey. At 9.7 on the morning of the 13th December, 1962, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that a resident of Trearddur Bay had reported a small vessel burning red...
The Danish Motor Vessel Idalith
DANISH VESSEL ESCORTED INTO HARBOUR Fowey, Cornwall. At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 7th March, 1963, Lloyd's agent at Fowey informed the honorary secretary that a vessel had gone ashore north-east of Par harbour while attempting to...
Estella
FOUR RESCUED FROM SAILING DINGHY Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.25 on the morning of Sunday the 25th August, 1963, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that the s.s. Baltic Sun had reported a small boat in difficulties near...