LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Rye Disaster. Result of the Board of Trade Inquiry
Owing to the Rye disaster, and the Board of Trade Inquiry which was held on it, the issue of THE LIFEBOAT which should have been published in February has been delayed, as it was felt to be most important that it should contain the full...
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A Motor Launch and Tehtar and Essex Pride
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex- At 11.26 a.m.
on 27th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor launch appeared to be in trouble.
There was a strong gale from the west south...
The Ex-Naval Cutter Overdraft II (1)
Anchor dragged A RADIO MESSAGE from the charter boat Aqua-Manda, that the ex-naval cutter Overdraft II had run out of fuel and dragged her anchor and was drifting with two people on board, was reported to the honorary secretary of Clactonon-...
H.M. Trawler Dunraven Castle
JANUARY 29TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 7.6 at night a telephone call was received from the naval authorities that H.M. trawler Dunraven Castle had run aground on Iron Rock Ledges, Isle of Arran,...
Elax and Polgarth
DECEMBER 22ND. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. The No. 2 life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson was launched at 5.40 P.M. as information had been received that a vessel was in distress near C.11 Black Buoy.
A light easterly breeze...
Lady Molly
FOUR WOMEN AND A DOG TAKEN OFF YACHT Margate, Kent. At 7.47 on the evening of the 8th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had fired two distress signals off Botany Bay. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil...
Mary
At daybreak on the 21st April, the pilots on the look - out discovered a schooner stranded on the beach about two miles N. of Montrose. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mincing Lane mustered as quickly as possible, launched the Lifeboat,...
Lucy, of Antwep
On the 13th April a barque, which proved to be the Lucy, of Antwerp, was seen to be in distress on the Burnham Flats, five miles and a half from the shore. The Braacaster Lifeboat, the •Joseph and Mary, was launched as soon as horses could...
Thais
Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.10 P.M. on the 6thAugust, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station at Swanage that a sailing yacht had capsized off Christchurch Ledge Buoy, and the motor lifeboat Thomas Markby...
Juniper
BUMPING BADLY Buckie, Banffshire. At 9 p.m. on I5th March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel had grounded on the West Mucks. There was a fresh south-easterly breeze with a moderate sea, and a flooding tide. The...