LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The 18-feet Motor Boat E.M.
Fowey, Cornwall. —• About eleven o'clock in the morning of the 8th of June, 1952, a message was received that a motor boat had reached Fowey and the owner had reported that his friend was missing in the 18-feet motor boat E.M. He had...
A Motor Yacht
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.15 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1952, the life-boat mechanic reported that a yacht was in difficulties two miles west of the life-boat station. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 10.45 in a...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Selsey, Sussex. — At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1952.
the West Wittering police reported that a fourteen-feet sailing dinghy, which had a crew of two from H.M.S.
Collingwood, had capsized...
Friso
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 9.10 on the night of the 6th of December, 1952, the harbour master reported that he had seen flares about four miles east of Clogher Head pier, and at 9.50 the life-boat George and Caroline Ermen was launched....
Sparkling Wave
Arklow, Co. Wlcklow.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 27th of January, 1953, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that flares had been seen about three miles east-by-north of Arklow harbour.
At 7.47 the life-boat Inbhear A/or...
The Converted Dutch Sailing Barge Dobber
Clacton-on- Sea, Essex.—At 3.32 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1953, a yacht was reported to be in distress east of the pier, and at 3.38 the life- boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched.
The sea was rough, with a...
Cloetta
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 3rd of September, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the yacht Cloetta, of Burnham-on- Crouch, was aground four and a quarter miles south-east of Clacton pier. A later message...
The S.S. Durward
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 7.58 on the morning of the 17th of January, 1954, the coastguard reported that the S.S.
Durward, of Grangemouth, which had a crew of eleven, was leaking and had a list on the south side of Robin...
A Dinghy
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 2.30 early on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1954, the Fire Brigade reported that firemen at Rosemullion Head were hauling two men up a cliff. The men had been in a fourteen-feet dinghy with another man, but the...
A Catamaran
Selsey, Sussex. At 10.20 on the morn- ing of the 14th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had burnt flares about a mile south-east of Selsey. A strong west- south-westerly wind was blowing, and the sea...