LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Manx Girl
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 5.30 P.M.
on the 2nd October the police reported that flares had been shown by a motor boat. A strong S.W. gale was blowing, the sea was rough, and there was a terrific rain storm. The motor...
Dirk II
Margate, Kent.—At 6.25 in the even- ing of the 1st of June, 1952, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht needed help four miles to the north of the North-East Spit Buoy, about ten miles north of North Foreland, and at 6.35 the life-boat...
Windrise
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 8.10 on the morning of the 4th of Nov- ember, 1952, the Department of In- dustry and Commerce in Dublin rang up to report a wireless message received by Tuskar Rock from the Holyhead coast- guard. The...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 9.25 on the night of the 30th of September, 1953, a woman told the coxswain that a bright light was flashing in the sea three miles north-east of Mallaig, and at 9.40 the life-boat Sir Arthur Rose put to sea....
The S.S. Sir James
Girvan, and Troon, Ayrshire.—At 6.48 on the evening of the 5th of May, 1954, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned the Girvan life-boat station that the S.S. Sir James, of Cardiff, was drifting ashore between Heads of Ayr and Turnberry...
The Mersey Dock Board No. 4 Pilot Boat
Moelfre, Anglesey.—About ten o'clock on the night of the 16th of January, 1950, the Holyhead coastguard tele- phoned that the Mersey Dock Board No. 4 Pilot Boat had struck a sub- merged object in Moelfre Bay and was in need of help. At...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry—On the 24th of March, 1950, the Commissioners of the Irish Lights asked the life-boat to relieve the Skelligs Rocks and Inish- tearaght Rocks Lighthouses as, by arrangement with the Commissioners, she had been made...
Lead Us (1)
Wbitby, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.— During the early morning of the 24th of March, 1951, the motor fishing boat, Lead Us, of Whitby, put out from Whitby with a crew of five. But the weather got worse and at 11.0 she was seen off...
Gold Gnome
CROMER OUT FOR EIGHTEEN HOURS Cromer, Norfolk.—At 5.20 in the evening of the 26th of October, 1947, the Palling coastguard reported that the motor vessel Gold Gnome, of London, was flying distress signals off Happis- burgh and the No. 2...
The Witch
FAMILY PARTY ADRIFT IN A GALE Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—On the morning of the 15th of November, 1947, a north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and at 10.30 the coastguard reported a vessel...