LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat
Hastings, Sussex.—At 2.8 on the afternoon of the llth of March, 1953, the Fairlight coastguard reported that an angler appeared to be in difficulties in a rowing-boat, about two miles south of Hastings pier, and was waving a flag....
The S.S. Libra
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At eleven o'clock on thenight of the 8th of July, 1953, the coastguard reported that the S.S.
Libra, of Stockholm, had asked for a boat to land a sick man. No other suitable boat...
Fairway
Fleetwood, Lancashire. — At seven o'clock on the evening of the 9th of September, 1953, a local trawler company reported that the steam trawler Fairway, of Hull, had an injured man on board who was in urgent need of medical attention.<...
Two Rowing Boats
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 3.50 on the 1st of November, 1953, the coxswain reported that two rowing boats with one person in each were in difficulties in Swansea Bay, and that two men who had put off to help them in another boat had...
St. Michael
Arklow, Go. Wicklow.—At 6.5 on the evening of the 24th of November, 1953, fishermen reported that a boat had burnt flares north of Arklow harbour.
At 6.30 the life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched. The sea was rough, with a...
Fishing Boats
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—During the morning of the 15th of January, 1954.
fishing boats were at sea in rough weather, and one of them returned to the harbour and reported that con- ditions at sea were very bad. At 9.50 the...
The S.S. City of York
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 7.5 on the evening of the 19th of February, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. City of York had reported that she wished to land a sick man at Whitby and had stated that she would be off the...
The S.S. Cape Clear
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 6.26 on the morning of the 7th of March, 1954, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the Middle Shoebury Sands, but there were no distress signals. The weather deteriorated during the morn- ing, and at 10.12...
Kenrix
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.6 on the evening of the 9th of March, 1954, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Kenrix, of Hull, had wirelessed that she had a sick man on board and needed a doctor. At 8.40 the life- boat Greater...
The S.S. Ribblebank
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 10.30 in the morning on the 10th of February, 1950, the harbour authorities reportedthat the s.s. Ribblebank, of Liverpool, was on the Lighthouse bank. Later she was reported to be loaded with 400 tons of calcium...