LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gallant Scottish Fishermen. The Rescue of Three Bathers at Port William
ON the afternoon of 15th September, 1935, two men and a girl went bathing in the bay at Port William, Wigtown- shire, in a very heavy surf. They kept in the broken water close inshore, but they were swept off their feet by a much larger wave...
Category: Services
The Royal Air Force Steamer Cawley
Plymouth, Devon.—Early on the morning of the 27th January the Royal Air Force steamer Cawley, bound with stores and a crew of fourteen from Rosyth to Plymouth, ran ashore at Queen Ann's Battery. A strong S.W.
gale was...
Jellicoe Rose
Plymouth, Devon.—At 1.18 A.M. on the 26th November, 1938, a message was received from the King's Harbour Master that it had been reported to him that a vessel was sounding her siren and was apparently in distress inshore. A whole S.W....
British Oak and Don Pat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.34 P.M.
on the 20th March, 1939, the R.N.
Shore Signal Station reported that rockets had been seen at Warden Point, coming from the Nore and Mouse...
Celtic
Margate, Kent.—On the morning of the 14th October, 1939, a sailing barge was seen dragging her anchor off Margate Jetty. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and it was decided to send out the motor lifeboat Lord Southborough...
The Sailing Barge Yarana
Margate, Kent.—At 2.15 A.M. on the 15th October, 1939, the coastguard telephoned the coxswain that he believed a vessel was burning flares. The coxswain went to the coastguard lookout and was satisfied that they were distress signals. An...
Fishing Boats (1)
LIFE-BOAT HERSELF IN DANCER Arbroath, Angus.—During the after- noon of the 23rd of April, 1947, a moderate south-easterly gale was Wow- ing, with a very rough sea and the motor life-boat John and William Mudie was launched at 2.40 and...
Prins Alexander
Ramsgate, Kent.-—At 5.44 on the morning on the 10th of July, 1952, the ! coastguard reported that the motor vessel Prins Alexander, of Rotterdam, and the S.S. N. 0. Ragenaes, of I Haugesund, had been in collision about eight miles east by...
Active
Margate, Kent.—About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1952, the Margate coastguard tele- phoned that a large yacht appeared to be in trouble approximately nine miles north by west of Margate. At 3.10 the life-boat...
The S.S. Castillo Tordesillas
Dover, Kent.—At 4.20 on the morn- ing of the 1st of February, 1953, a steamer which had been driven on to the breakwater in a strong north- westerly gale with a rough sea, fired distress rockets. At 4.45 the life-boat Southern Africa left...