LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
The No. 1 motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was launched at 10.30 A.M., on the 4th November, as conditions were bad and some of the local boats and cobles were at sea. A moderate east breeze was blowing, a rough sea was rolling into the...
Homeland, Provider and Harold
Newbiggin, Northumberland. — The local motor fishing cobles Homeland, Provider and Harold did not return when expected on the 17th December, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Arthur R. Dawes was launched at 2.2 P.M. A fresh S.E. breeze...
Bluebell (1)
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1948, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Bluebell, of Port Seton, with a crew of seven, had broken down nine miles to the north-east, and the motor...
Nellie
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—About 6.40 in the evening of the lit11 of April, 1949, the coastguard reported a fishing boat in difficulties to the southward, and the life-boat Jeanie Spears was launched at 7.5 in a fresh west-south- west breeze...
Gertruda
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.55 P.M. on the 25th February the Wyke Regis coastguard reported that a vessel two miles S.S.W. of Lulworth look-out was burning red flares. She was the motor vessel Gertruda, of London, and her engine had broken down....
lona (1)
Ramsgate, Kent.—Soon after midnight on the 5th-6th September the watchman on East Pier reported that the local motor yacht lona had broken down off the harbour. The weather was calm, but there was a strong tide, and the yacht was drifting...
Invermore, of Dublin (6)
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
Provider
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 10 P.M. on the 19th February, 1938, the harbour look-out reported that a fishing boat had not returned as expected. Later a mast-light was seen, and as it was stationary, the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow...
The No. 1 Pilot Boat
Workington, Cumberland.—At 9.55 on the evening of the 29th of September, 1952, the Walney Island coastguard telephoned that the No. 1 pilot boat, of Workington, with two men on board, had broken down off Workington, and at ten o'clock...
An Aircraft
Buckie, Banffshire.—At 11.33 on the morning of the 12th of March, 1953, the coastguard passed on a message from the Buckie police that an air- craft was down in the sea off Buckpool harbour, about one and a half mileswest of Buckie. The life...