LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Trade Winds
Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 9.52 in the morning of the 22nd of March, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was flying a black flag about one mile to the eastward and at ten o'clock the life-boat Michael Stephens left her...
Mermaid
Holy Island, Northumberland.—At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the nine-ton auxiliary yacht Mermaid, of Poole, was drifting towards the Ridge, west of Holy Island Harbour, and at 2.16 the...
A Cabin Cruiser
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of September, 1952, the coast- guard saw a cabin-cruiser drifting towards the rocks about two miles south of Berwick. At 5.10 the life- boat...
The S.S. Bannrose
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.2 on the evening of the 6th of October, 1952, the Formby coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Bannrose, of Liverpool, was in distress between B.I and B.2 buoys at the bar of the River Mersey, with her...
H.M. M.F.V. No. 1106
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
•—At 7.59 on the evening of the 10th of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that H.M. M.F.V. No. 1106 had run aground off Spittal Point, and at 8.20 the life-boat J. and W. was...
Provider A, Pilot Me II, Venus, Lead Us and Progress
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1953.
local fishermen reported that bad weather was making conditions dan- gerous at the harbour bar, and at 1.20 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hep- worth...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.— At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 28th of March, 1953, a woman rang up from Harbour View to say that a rowing boat with a crew of three was on the rocks near Harbour View to the east side of Courtmacsherry...
Daddy
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a small yacht anchored half a mile south-east of the pier needed help, and at 2.5 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched. The...
Coima
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 1.46 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1953, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that the Hayling Island Sail- ing Club had reported that a yacht off Chichester harbour had lost her rudder and was in...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At eleven o'clock on the night of the 8th of September, 1953, during thick fog, an airman reported that a sailingdinghy was missing, with the owner and another airman on board, and that when last seen the...