LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eboe
Signals of distress were seen in the bay at 3 A.M. on the 20th February. The Lifeboat was launched, and proceeded to the barqne Eboe, of Liverpool, bound from that port for Africa with a general cargo; she had 6 feet of water in her hold,...
Micronesia
On the 7th June the Life-boat was again called out. and proceeded to the aid of the ship Micronesia, of Liverpool, which had her cargo of nitrate on fire.
Two steam-tugs and a Deal galley were in attendance on the vessel,...
M.K.D.
PALLING, NORFOLK.—The look-out man having reported a vessel ashore at Waxham on the 16th March, the No. 1 Lifeboat Good Hope was taken on her transporting carriage along the shore to the scene of the disaster. A strong gale was blowing from...
Mystery
LOWESTOFT.—Flares having been seen in a southerly direction the crew of the Lifeboat Samuel Plimsoll were summoned on the 15th January; the boat was launched at 12.10 A.M., and found the dandy Mystery, of Harwich, having on board a cre*v of...
Fishing Boats
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The fishing fleet put out early on the morning of the 6th May. Later on the weather got bad, a thick fog settled and the sea was rising fast. Some of the boats ran for harbour, and the motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith...
Eagle
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—The motor fishing boat Eagle put out at 1 P.M. on the 16th May to haul crab and lobster pots. After she had been gone for about an hour the sea got very rough, and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at...
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....
Tempo
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 10.13 P.M. on the 13th September, 1938, the coastguard reported having received a message from the Brake Light-vessel that a motor vessel was aground half a mile east of North Goodwin Buoy. A gentle breeze was blowing and...
A Rowing Boat
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.20 P.M. on the 12th February, 1939, information was received that two boys in a disabled small rowing boat were being carried out to sea, having broken a rowlock.
The motor life-boat William and Clara...
The Fishing Smacks Useful and Mannin
Douglas, Isle of Man.—During the afternoon of the llth March, 1939, a strong N.W. gale sprang up, with a heavy sea. Anxiety was felt for the local fishing smacks Useful and Manmn, which were at sea, and the motor lifeboat Manchester and...