LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Firefly Aeroplane (2)
Cromarty, Whitehills, and Buckle, Banffshire.—About 1.30 in the after- noon of the 4th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Guiding Star returned to Whitehills with wreckage of a Firefly aeroplane which she reported had crashed about three and a...
Jonquil
Gampbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 5.47 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1952, the Kildonan coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht had been reported aground off Kilmory to the west of Bennan Head, Arran, and at 5.57 the life-boat City of Glasgow...
The S.S. Baron Dunmore
Workington, Cumberland.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 1st of October, 1952, the master of the S.S. Baron Dunmore, of Ardrossan, reported that his ship had run aground in the channel at Workington and asked for the life- boat. The life-boat...
The S.S. Campo Grande
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About ten o'clock on the morning of the llth of January, 1953, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard telephoned that the Cork lightvessel had reported seeing a steamer two miles south-by-west of the lightvessel....
The S.S. Larchfield
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 1.55 early on the morning of the 24th of February, 1953, the coastguard reported that a wireless message had been intercepted indicating that the S.S. Larchfield, of Liverpool, was ashore near Carmel Head, in Holyhead...
Zephyr
Plymouth, Devon.—At 6.46 on the evening of the 10th of May, 1953, the Yealm coastguard rang up to say that the owner of the fifteen-feet sailing dinghy Zephyr had reported that two men who had hired the dinghy that afternoon had last been...
A Dinghy and a Salvage Lighter
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 21st of September, 1953, the Ryde police rang up to say that a man was missing in a dinghy between No Man's Fort and Horse Sand Fort. At 8.51 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched....
A Meteor Aircraft (1)
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 21st of January, 1954, the Margate coastguard told the Margate life-boat station that No. 19 Group R.A.F. at Plymouth had reported that a Meteor aircraft had crashed...
The S.S. Brookside
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 3.15 on the morning of the 31st of March, 1954, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard rang up to say that he had intercepted a wireless message from the S.S.
Brookside, of Sunderland, which said...
A Meteor Aircraft
Eastbourne, and Hastings, Sussex.— At 11.54 on the night of the 26th of April, 1954, the coastguard telephoned the Eastbourne life-boat station to say the R.A.F. station at Worthing had reported that two airmen were baling out of a...