LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helen
FISHING BOAT OUT OF PETROL Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire.—At 8.0 in the evening of January 19th, 1947, the Lytham police reported that the fishing boat Helen, of Liverpool, with a crew of three aboard, was in need of help. The wind from the...
Freda
Poole, Dorset.—At 8.20 on the even- ing of the 7th of October, 1953, the police reported that a yacht was on the rocks at the Training Bank and had burnt flares. At 8.25 the life- boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched in a ground swell and...
Gdynia
Boulmer, Northumberland.—At 2.35 on the morning of the 24th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore one mile east-south- east of Boulmer Haven. The life-boat Clarissa Langdon was launched at 2.55. There was a slight...
Evertsen
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 12.42 in the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1948, the Gorleston coastguard reported that the Dutch motor vessel Evertsen, which was off the harbour, had signalled for a doctor. Six...
A Motor Launch (1)
Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland.— Just after 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the 29th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported that a motor launch, in trying to enter the harbour in a fresh northerly breeze, with a heavy swell, had run...
A Rubber Dinghy (2)
Minehead, Somerset. — At noon on the 5th of August, 1949, the police reported that two men in a rubber dinghy were be.ing blown out to sea from St. Audries Bay, and the life-boat Kate Greatorex put out at 12.30. A light south-westerly breeze...
A Dinghy (1)
Douglas, Isle of Man - At 12.37 p.m.
on 13th August, 1968, the coastguard reported that a rubber dinghy, with two people on board, was adrift one mile east of Cornan beach. The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1 was...
Alekton
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 12.32 p.m. on 2nd February, 1969, the coastguard reported that the yacht Alekton, with two people on board, had broken down on the east side of Ryde pier and needed the assistance of the life-boat. At 12.47 the...
The Brixham Smack Fiona
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire - At 8.24 p.m. on 19th April, 1969, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was in difficulties one and a half miles off Downies village, Porthlethen.
The life-boat Southern Africa, on temporary...
A Dinghy (2)
North Sunderland, Northumberland - At 8.42 p.m. on 1st September, 1969, the life-boat mechanic reported red flares in the direction of the Fame islands. The life-boat The Edward and Mary Lester was launched at 8.55. It was one and a half...