LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At about 6.15 P.M. on the 12th October, 1938, a doctor, a member of the local life-boat committee, asked for the life-boat to be launched to take to Penzance a young man who was suffering from acute...
Gallilee, Empire and Silver Line.
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of 16th May, 1939, a strong N.E.
wind was blowing with a very rough sea.
About 10.15 it was learnt that two small fishing boats were returning. Thenjust as the motor...
Ferjo
STANDING BY A SWEDISH COAL SHIP Walton and Frinton, Essex.—-At 11.50 on the night of the 16th of March, 1947, the coastguard reported informa- tion from the Sunk Lightship that a vessel was showing flares. A fresh west- south-west gale was...
Wild Duck II
Southwold, Suffolk.—The coastguard telephoned at 12.50 P.M. on the 22nd September that a small yacht about half a mile south of the coastguard station was making signals of distress.
A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with...
The Danish Steamer Svanhild
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—On the afternoon of the 16th February the coxswainreceived a message from the coastguard that a steamer with her engines broken down, about a mile north of the Longship lighthouse, wanted help. She was the Danish...
Joan
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 9th November, 1937, news was received that a motor boat was in difficulties about seven miles south of Lowestoft. The crew of the motor life-boat Agnes Cross were assembled, but the coastguard...
Sapphire, of Glasgow (1)
Newhaven, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 2nd December, 1937, the motor vessel Sapphire, of Glasgow, bound for Ghent, had trouble with her engine when some miles off the coast between Newhaven and Shoreham. The...
The S.S. Spero
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At about 1.40 P.M. on the 15th January, 1938, coastguard reported that the s.s. Spero, of Newcastle, was drifting towards the shore five" miles north of St. David's Head. She was bound with a general...
Heather (1)
Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— 19th January, 1938. At 2.35 P.M. the motor fishing boat Heather, of Filey, was reported overdue, and as it was not known in which direction she might be, the honorary secretary sent out twelve men in three...
An Ex-Naval Man's Gratitude
ON 25th October last, the Motor Life- boat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, went to the help of a small boat which, while on the way from Walton to Clacton, had been carried out to sea.
The sea was rough,...
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