LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Fishing Vessel
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 28th of October, 1954, the film unit at Fishguard mak- ing the film Moby Dick reported that a dummy whale being used for the film had broken away from the tug towing it. The film...
Morning Star
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.30 early on the morning of the 18th of Decem- ber, 1954, the Formby coastguard reported that a fishing boat had wire- lessed that she was standing by the fishing boat Morning Star, of Rothesay, which had run...
Stella Arcturus
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 3.54 on the afternoon of the 8th of December, 1954, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the trawler Stella Arcturus, of Hull, had reported that she had gone ashore on the Binks and needed a tug. At 4.5 the...
The S.S. Mitcham
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.43 on the evening of the 4th of March, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Mitcham, of London, which was at anchor half a mile south-east of Chap- man Light, had reported that her skipper was ill...
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New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 17th of July, 1955,the life-boat coxswain reported that ten people were marooned on the rocks a mile and a half to the west of New Quay. Ten minutes later the life-boat St. Albans was...
A Rowing Boat
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.40 on the after- noon of the 21st of August, 1955, the piermaster of the East Pier rang up to say that a rowing boat with four men and a woman on board was in difficulties about one and a half miles off shore. Eight...
Nayadis
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1955, an ex-coxswain reported that he had received a message from Lloyd's agent at Dover that the tanker Nayadis, of London, needed a doctor to attend her chief engineer...
Cestrian Maid
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 5th of June, 1956, it was reported that the crew of two of the yacht Cestrian Maid, of Liverpool, were signalling for help off Gallows Point. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts,...
Abide
Swanage, Dorset. — At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 1st of October, 1952, the coastguard reported that a salvage vessel, working on a wreck south-west of Chapman's Pool, appeared to be in difficulties and later stated that she had hoisted...
Lesley
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.20 early on the 15th of August, 1953, the stageman told the coxswain that a yachtsman had reported that he had seen another yacht in distress off R.7 Buoy in the Rock Channel. At 12.45 the life-boat Norman B....