LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lord Harewood
At 11 P.M.
on the 1st April the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had stranded on the Inner Binks. A N.W. to W. wind was blowing, with a rough ground sea.
The motor life-boat City of Bradford II...
A Sailing Dinghy
On the evening of the llth September a message was received from a Teignmouth resident, through the coastguard, that a girl had left Teignmouth for Exmouth in a 12-feet sailing dinghy, and as a strong wind was blowing, with a choppy and...
The Finnish Four-Masted Barque Herzogin Cecilie
Sal combe, Devon. — Early on the morning of the 25th April the Finnish four-masted barque Herzogin Cecilie, of Mariehamn, bound from Australia to Falmouth and Ipswich with a cargo of grain, ran ashore in a thick fog between Sewer Mill Cove...
A Fishing Boat
Margate, Kent. —At 12.17 in the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing vessel had broken down and was drifting three and. a half miles north- north-east of the pier. A strong north- north-west...
The S.S. Baron Elibank
Dover, Kent.—-At 9.35 in the morning of the 21st of August, 1948, the Sand- gate coastguard reported information from the s.s. Baron Elibank that two men had been seen in a rowing boat eight miles east by south of Dover, and the motor...
Success
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 10.5 in the morning of the 7th of April, 1949, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard re- ported a vessel flying signals of distress one mile north-north-east of the coast- guard station. At 10.24 the life-boat E.M.E...
Fishing Boats
Sheringham, Norfolk. — About 9 o'clock in the morning of the 22nd of April, 1949, local fishing boats were overtaken by bad weather. Some reached the shore with difficulty.
Three were still at sea, and the life- boat...
Dunelm
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 10.50 in the morning of the 18th of June, 1949, the Seahouses coastguard telephoned that the tug Dunelm, of Newcastle, was signalling for help, and blowing her siren, half a mile east of Seahouses, and...
Bess
Barrow, Lancashire. — On the morn- ing of the 31st of July, 1949, a strong west-south-west breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. At 5.13 the Walney coastguard reported that a trawler had spoken to a motor yacht west of More- cambe Bay...
Dramatic Pictures
Really good photographs of life-boats at sea in rough weather are almost impossible to come by. Photographs of actual rescue operations are almost as rare. This is an understandable state of affairs, for the life-boat is, by the nature of...
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