LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Double Gift
MEN of the 2nd Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, from Shorncliffe Camp, took part, as launchers, in a life-boat service at Hythe on the afternoon of 28th July, when the motor life-boat went out to the help of the yacht Leonora Minnie,...
Category: Donations
Romantic
Dover, Kent.—-On the night of the 17th August Ramsgate coastguard telephoned that South Goodwin lightvessel had reported SOS signals and flares about two and a half miles southeast of the light-vessel. The sea was smooth and the weather was...
Frolic
On the 16th November the motor fishing boat Frolic, with two men on board, broke down off the Gouffre and began to drift towards the Hanois reef. Her signals were heard on shore and the motor life-boat Queen Victoria was launched at 6.12 P...
The S.S. Matrix
— The s.s.
Magrix, of Hull, was at anchor off Spurn in a whole W. gale, with a rough sea, on the 19th October. At 11.40 A.M. she began to drift and went ashore on the Point. She was on a dead lee shore with the seas...
The Motor Drifter White Heather
— On the evening of the 9th November a police- man reported that a man on Brechou Island had telephoned that a vessel thought to be his motor drifter White Heather, was showing signals of distress about three miles north of Sark. A...
Walker II
Margate, Kent.—At 12.50 in the after- noon, on the 3rd of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the local pilot boat Walker II had broken down and was drifting on to the Nayland Rocks. Two motor boats had gone to her help, but could not...
Ruby
Peel, Isle of Man.—Shortly after one •o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th •of August, 1950, the harbour master notified the honorary secretary that the local fishing yawl Ruby, overdue with a <^rew of two, had broken down at White...
Two Sisters
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—About 9.15 on the night of Sunday the 5th of August, 1951, they heard that the motor boat Two Sisters, with six people on board, had not arrived.
She had left the Copeland Islands for Donaghadee at 7.0...
None (2)
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 4.0 on the afternoon of the 31st of August, 1951, the police telephoned that a man had fallen down a cliff between Llan- granog and Penbryn Beach. The sea was too rough for a shore boat to put out, so the...
An Aeroplane (4)
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...