LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Delia
AUGUST 29TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 3.30 in the afternoon, messages were received from the Colwyn Bay police and the Rhyl coastguard that a fishing boat was in distress off Rhos pier, drifting seawards. A strong...
St. Colman, of Arklow
NOVEMBER 19TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. At 7.25 at night a message was received that a motor trawler had broken down off west pier head. A moderate southeasterly breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough. The motor life-boat Dunleary II...
Platypus
DECEMBER 12TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 8.50 at night the coastguard reported a small vessel flashing SOS signals half a mile east of Heugh Light. A light westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was slight. The motor...
Mass capsize in the lough
PORTAFERRY/NEWCASTLE | 11 AUGUST
Portaferry and Newcastle RNLI crews were part of a multi-service response to a large-scale rescue on Strangford Lough, Co Down. Eighty-eight boats were taking part in a...
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Ruby
JUNE 3RD. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.20 A.M. i t was reported by telephone that a small fishing boat was in distress to the south of Berwick pier, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on temporary duty at the station,...
A Boat (2)
JUNE 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
Seven soldiers had gone fishing in a small boat. There was a dense fog.
Nothing was found, and it was learned later that the men had been picked up by a trawler. An...
An Aeroplane (5)
Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.29 P.M. on the 9th September, 1939, the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the...
Two French Fishing Smacks
On the 31st De- cember, two French fishing-smacks were seen driving out of Dungeness Roads down on a lee-shore, off Dymchurch. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the S.W.
The Dungeness life-boat, the Providence, was...
Emma
On 4th December at 12.30 P.M. the Motor Life- boat Mary Scott was launched to the help of the motor fishing boat Emma, of Southwold, with three men on board, which had been seen by the Coastguard to be flying a distress signal about one mile...
The S.S. Jersey City
A telephone message was received from the Coastguard at 1.53 P.M. on the 6th January that the s.s. Jersey City, of Bideford, had broken down and was in distress ten miles off the Bishop Rock.
Preparations to launch the...