LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kindly Light
At 9 A.M. on the 9th October the sea was making fast, and one of the fishing boats, the Kindly Light, had not returned from the fishing grounds.
The coastguard stations at Bamburgh, Holy Island and Sea Houses were warned...
Gipsy Queen
On the morning of the 13th February, the local motor fishing boat Gipsy Queen, with two men on board, went out sprat-fishing off Fairlight Glen. Her engine broke down; she began to drift; and the men signalled for help. A moderate...
Northgate
Humber, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 28th of January, 1949, there was dense fog, but the weather was calm, and at 5.10 the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Northgate, of Hull, was ashore close to the life-boat...
Florence Myal
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.15 A.M.
on the 4th May, 1938, the coastguard reported a light about six miles S.W.
by S. Watch was kept, and after some time it was decided to send out the motor life-boat...
Lanie
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 5.30 in the evening of the 4th of September, 1951, the life-boat bowman reported that a ship had been seen in a dangerous position about one mile north-west of the Rock Channel's outer buoys. A strong south-westerly...
Alamein
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 12.31 on the afternoon of the 25th of August.
1957, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht seemed to be drifting off Xew Ground buoy but was not showing distress signals. The vacht...
Erillus
OCT. 14TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
The coastguard reported that a steam trawler was ashore on the Smithic Sands. A fresh N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 2.15 P.M. the motor life-boat Stanhope Smart was...
Gem
DECEMBER 11TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
A crew from Whitby had gone to Bridlington to fetch the motor fishing boat Gem. As the seas were heavy the life-boat coxswain kept a look-out for her. At 6.40 in the evening the...
The Sailing Boat Chums
OCTOBER 27TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 12.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a sailing boat was drifting towards the sands. She appeared to be in difficulties. A westerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was...
The Duty of Watching the Coast for Casualties
THE exact position which the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION occupies with regard to keeping a watch for casualties seems to be very little understood by the general public, the result being that on several occasions the Coxswains of...
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