LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hondsrug
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 2.27 in the afternoon, on the 18th of December, 1949, the Gorleston coast- guard reported that a vessel at anchor off Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth, was flying a signal for...
The Sailing Boat Delphus
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 11.43 on the morning of the 28th of June, 1950, the harbour master called the mechanic ashore from the life- boat Dun- leary II, and told him that a sailing boat had capsized. Seven minutes later the life-boat...
Kittiwake
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 6.50 in the evening, on the 31st of July, 1950, the Aberayron police telephoned that a motor boat from Aberayron was flying distress signals six miles north- east of New Quay. At 7.10 the life- boat St. Albans was...
Norman
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About nine hi the night, on the 13th of August, 1950, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard telephoned that a resident had reported a yacht on the Pye Sands.
Later it was learned that the auxiliary...
Cornel
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — At 12.35 in the early morning, on the llthof January, 1951, the coastguard re- ported that the motor vessel Cornel, of Cardiff, about five miles north-east of Port Nevin, had a heavy list and needed help....
Pride of Cahirciveen
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 9.10 on the morning of the 5th of May, 1951, a telephone message was received from the post office that the motor fishing boat Pride of Cahireiveen, with a crew of four, was about eight hours overdue from the fishing...
Idler
Caister, Norfolk.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1951, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht was flying distress signals about a mile south-east of Winterton. At 4.30 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched....
Widgeon
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.27 in the evening of the 20th of October, 1951, the Mid-Barrow Lightvessel reported that the cabin cruiser Wid- geon, of Ramsgate, which had broken her rudder, was tied up astern of the lightvessel and in need of...
The S.S. Taxiarchis
Redcar, Yorkshire.—At 3.22 in the afternoon of the 14th of January, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that a vessel was aground on the West Scar, and at 3.45 the life-boat City of Leeds was launched in a moderate westerly breeze, with a...
Arripay
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 30th of January, 1948, the crew of three of the motor barge Arripay, of London, abandoned her in a rowing boat, during a south-westerly gale near the Swin Bell Buoy, with three feet of water in her engine-room....