LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sand-hopper
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—On the morning of the 26th November, 1938, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore off the Dysinni River. A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The pulling and sailing life-boat Jones-Gibb was launched at...
Brionie
Selsey, Sussex.—On the evening of the 22nd April, 1939, the yacht Brionie ran aground two miles W.S.W.
of Selsey Bill, while on passage from Lymington to Newhaven with a crew of three. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a...
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Dover, Kent.—On the morning of the 3rd June six children belonging to the Dover garrison were cut off by the tide under Shakespeare Cliff. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor boarding boat William Myatt, attached to...
The Sonja
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 2.10 P.M. on the 5th October, 1939, the Southend coastguard reported that a vessel had stranded on the Skerryvore Reef, Machrihanish. It was thought that the services of a tug might beneeded, and the tug...
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FOOD TO A STARVING ISLAND Aith, Shetlands. — For nearly three weeks the island of Papa Stour had been cut off from the mainland and the islanders were starving. On January llth, 1947, the food executive officer for Shetland asked for the...
Jim M.
BRINGING A SICK MAN ASHORE Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 9.25 in the evening of February 7th, 1947, information was received through the coastguard that the motor vessel Jim M., of London, which was anchored...
Thetis
LONDON BARGE ADRIFT Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.45 in the afternoon of the 8th of April, 1947, the motor life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 put out in a strong west-south-west gale, with a very rough sea, to search for a missing...
Silanion
Longhope, Orkney, and Thurso, Caith- ness-shire.—The Longhope motor life- boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 11.30 P.M., and the Thurso motor life-boat H.C.J. at 11 P.M., on the 25th February, as news had been received from the coastguard...
Wallaroo
At 6.20 A.M.
on the 20th May information was received that the yacht Wallaroo, of Fleetwood, while taking part in a race to the Isle of Man, had had her main- mast smashed during heavy weather.
She had...
Lil
At 9.5 A.M.
on the 20th August information was received from the lightkeeper on the East Pier that two yachts were adrift.
A gale was blowing from the west and the sea was rough. The motor life- boat...