LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Fishing Vessel Bent Erik
APRIL 6TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
About 4.30 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was a shore at Covesea Skerries and a few minutes later reported that she was firing red lights. At five o’clock the...
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FEBRUARY 17TH . - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE. Flashing lights had been seen at irregular intervals, but no sign of any vessel in need of help was found, although the coxswain took the life-boat in right under the cliffs, and among the sea defences,...
Lifeboat Services
ROUGH RIDE FOR ATLANTIC 21 IN BROKEN WATER Atlantic tows MFV and four crew to safety from lee shore Helmsman Jonathan Adnams of Southwold lifeboat station has been accorded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on...
Category: Services
A Rubber Dinghy
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 10th of July, 1951, the police reported that a rubber dinghy with six people in it was drift- ing out to sea off Ingoldmells Point.
At 7.10 the life-boat Anne Allen was...
Ena
On the 19th July the motor yacht Ena, of Greenock, bound from Douglas to Greenock with eight persons on board, was in difficulty owing to trouble with her engine, two and a half miles W.S.W.
of Portpatrick. A strong S.W....
The Converted Ship's Boat Venture
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 9.20 on the evening of the 18th of July, 1954, a life-boatman, who was at Gibraltar Point, reported that a yacht was flying a distress signal three miles south- south-west of Skegness. At 9.50 the life-boat The...
Hopeful
ENGINE FAILED AND NO SAIL Seaham, Durham.—At 11.56 in the morning of the 5th of July, 1947, the coastguard reported information from Hawkthorn Towers that a b"oat was.
adrift and in need of help, and the motor...
The S.S. Clonlee
Workington, Cumberland. — On the 10th of July, 1952, the S.S. Clonlee, which had arrived off Workington from Algiers, laden with iron ore, radioed that she was short of food and asked for provisions. Her agents asked if the life-boat would...
A Yacht (1)
Eastbourne, Sussex - At 4.44 p.m. on I2th July, 1966, a yacht with one man on board was reported in difficulties four miles south-east of Beachy Head. A small coaster was standing by the boat. There was a gale from the south-west with a...
Scimitar
DRIFTING BROADSIDE Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 1.36 p.m. on gth July, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a yacht two miles south-west by south of the coastguard look-out was dismasted. There was a fresh westerly breeze with...