LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat (1)
Hoylake, Cheshire.—9th February.
A small boat had been reported in distress, but it drifted ashore.— Rewards, £12 17s. 6d..
A Sailing Smack (1)
Lowestoft, and Kessingland, Suffolk.— 20th October. A sailing smack had sunk, but her crew took to their boat and were picked up by another smack.
—Rewards, Lowestoft, £19 19s. 6d.; Kessingland, £23 8s....
A Steamer (1)
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—10th November, 1938. A steamer had run ashore on the Inner Gabbard, but got off without help.—Rewards, £21 7s. Qd..
A Boat (1)
Hastings, Sussex.—6th July, 1939. A boat had been reported off Bexhill, partly submerged, but she could not be found.—Rewards, £31 16s. Qd..
Fishing Cobles (1)
Filey, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 3rd November, 1939, four motor fishing cobles were at sea. The weather was bad. Watch was kept, and at 11.40 A.M., as the conditions were then dangerous for the returning boats, the pulling and...
Fishing Boats (1)
LIFE-BOAT HERSELF IN DANCER Arbroath, Angus.—During the after- noon of the 23rd of April, 1947, a moderate south-easterly gale was Wow- ing, with a very rough sea and the motor life-boat John and William Mudie was launched at 2.40 and...
The S.S.Jankiki (1)
Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent. — At 6.42 in the morning of the 30th of March, 1952, the Deal coastguard tele- phoned to the Walmer life-boat station a wireless message from the S.S.
Jankiki, of Panama, that she was aground...
Moss Bay (1)
Barrow, Lancashire; and Workington, Cumberland.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1953, the YValney Island coastguard rang up the Barrow life-boat station to say that the steam hopper Moss Bay, of Workington, bound...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 9.40 on the evening of the 7th of August, 1953, the coxswain received a message that three people had gone out fishing at six o'clock in a small rowing boat fitted with an outboard motor, and that they had not...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 8.52 on the evening of the 30th of August, 1958, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message that a fishing boat was making distress signals off the Barmouth Fairway buoy. At 9.20 the life-boat...