LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St. Joseph (1)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 2.30 in the afternoon, on the 16th of April, 1950, the harbourmaster reported that the motor yacht St. Joseph, of Dro- gheda, with a crew of two, had broken down about two miles north of Port Oriel and was...
Mary Ann
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 9.5 on the night of the 23rd of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a message re- received from Sandwich that a fishing boat was drifting on a lee shore a mile north of Guildford Hotel. Five minutes later,...
Bervor
Troon, Ayrshire.-—At 7.50 in the evening, on the 25th of September, 1950, a message was received from Irvine that a yacht had broken down off Irvine harbour and could not get in. So, at 8.15, the life-boat Sir David Richmond, of Glasgozv,...
Ebor Jewel
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.45 in the afternoon of the 17th of December, 1947, the Port War Signal Station telephoned that a vessel, three miles south of Spurn Point, was making distress signals, and the motor life-boat City of...
Roger
Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 8.57 on the night of the 13th of September, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was making lamp signals and burning flares about six miles to the south-south-east, and the motor life- boat Michael Stephens...
Providence
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At four in the, afternoon of the 2nd of January, 1949, the coastguard reported that red flares had been burned by the local motor fishing boat Providence, about three miles to the southward, and the life- boat Mary Ann...
A Longshore Fishing Boat
LONGSHORE FISHING BOAT At 5.33 p.m. on 2ist October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a longshore fishing boat had broken down in Yarmouth Roads. Other longshore boats were calling for assistance as they could not tow...
Paragon
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 27th of February, 1955, a flare was seen off Ireland's Eye. At six o'clock the life-boat R.P.L. was launched. The sea was choppy, a fresh southerly breeze was blowing, and the tide...
Little Old Lady
Hastings, Sussex. At 5.52 on the evening of the 11th of September, 1960, the coastguard told the coxswain that a fishing boat, Little Old Lady, was broken down off the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill. The life-boat M.T.C. was launched at 6.4 in...
A Fishing Boat
Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 9.15 on the morning of the 17th May, 1961, when the life-boat Sarah Tilson was launched to go to the help of a drifting fishing boat, there was a light east-south- easterly wind with a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing...