LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Viva
St. Helier, Jersey.—At 10.45 on the night of the 1st of August, 1949, the harbour office reported that a resident of Bel Royal had seen a rocket off St.
Aubins, and at 11.20 the life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at...
An Aeroplane (1)
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Day Dawn, of Peterhead
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 9.50 A.M.
on Tuesday, the 26th October, 1937, a man reported that the motor fishing boat Day Dawn, of Peterhead, was near the rocks at South Head with her engine broken down, and that she was...
Peggy, of Lowestoft
Margate, Kent. — At about 8.45 P.M.
on the 16th November, 1937, the coastguard reported that a vessel near the Long Nose Rock, two miles east of the life-boathouse, was burning flares. A fresh E.S.E. breeze was blowing,...
An Aircraft
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—During the night of the 31st March, 1938, the coastguard reported that an aircraft had come down in the sea off Brighton, and was firing Very lights. A light west breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. The motor...
Excellent
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.10 A.M. on the 15th September, 1938, the coastguard reported a vessel aground on Newcome Sands. The motor life-boat Agnes Cross was launched at 4.40 A.M.
A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, and the...
Brit
Salcombe, Devon.—At 10.0 on the night of the 6th August, 1952, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a red flare had been seen one mile south-south-east of Bolt Head. At 10.10 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse left her moorings,...
Devotion
Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—At 12.57 on the afternoon of the 22nd of October, 1952, a fisherman at Burnmouth tele- phoned that the motor fishing boat Devotion, of Burnmouth, with a crew of four, was flying a distress signal three miles...
Pern
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 8.7 on the evening of the 22nd October, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Pern, of Aberdeen, had wirelessed that she had broken down and was driving ashore about three miles south-east of...
The S.S. Florence Cook
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At about four o'clock in the morning of the 19th of December, 1949, the Bangor coast- guard telephoned that a vessel was in distress at Ballymacormack Point. At 4.25 the life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was launched in...