LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.50 in the early morning on the 26th of Feb- ruary, 1950, the coastguard at Southend Pier Head reported that a man and his two boys, who had left Sheerness during the afternoon in a rowing boat to go to Dead...
Tatra
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 1.5 in the afternoon, on the 18th of January, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard tele- phoned that the Wick radio station had reported the motor ship Tatra of Tonsberg, broken down and in distress, twenty-three miles...
Drakedene
Plymouth, Devon.—At 9.20 on the night of the 4th of February, 1951, the King's Harbour Master reported that the motor vessel Drakedene, of Cardiff, with a crew of nine, had dragged her anchors and was on the rocks near Jennycliff. At...
Le Cap
St. Helier, Jersey.—At 1.25 On the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1951, the harbour master reported that the motor vessel Le Cap, of Carteret, which had left St. Helier for Gorey with a crew of three, had wirelessed a distress...
The Motor Cruisers Kon Tiki and Thyl and Fraeya
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4.49 on the morn- ing of the ]4th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been seen from a vessel between Gull Stream Buoy and North Goodwin Buoy. At 5.2 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out....
Kitty
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 1st of May, 1955, the Formby coastguard telephoned that a boat had been reported in dis- tress and making heavy weather in the Rock Channel. At 12^.30 the life-boat Edmund and Mary...
Mavis
Cullercoats, Northumberland.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of October, 1955, the Tynemouth coastguard rang up to say that a steamer had reported that a fishing coble was in distress about four miles north-north-east of Cullercoats....
Tyrronall
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 7.40 on the evening of the 3rd of November, 1955, the skipper of a fishing boat in Arklow dock reported that he had heard on his boat's wireless the motor vessel Tyrronall reporting that her steering gear had...
Ivylea
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 9.10 on the evening of the 20th of December, ] 955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that flares had been seen between Hoy Head and Graemsay. At 9.23 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander M. Pater son was...
General San Martin
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.4 on the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1956, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the tanker General San Martin, of Buenos Aires, had reported that several of her crew had been gassed.