LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Canopus
Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.43 p.m. on nth July, 1965, the east pier watchman reported that a motor boat was burning flares in Pegwell Bay and at 4.50 the lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea.
There was a strong...
Jamaica
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 6.50 a.m. on loth November, 1965, the local trawler Jamaica was reported aground on the sandbank off Lowestoft harbour. She had sent out a 'Mayday' call. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick went out at 7.5 in...
Confide
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 6.43 on the evening of the 14th of October, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a local fishing boat was overdue and the relations of the crew were becoming anxious. At 8.2 the life- boat Lady...
Fishing Vessels
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 8.30 on the morning of the 13th of November, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that some local motor fishing vessels, which were out in a full south- south-easterly gale and a very rough sea, would be...
Fishing Boats (2)
Bridlington, Yorkshire. On the 12th of May, 1960, nine local motor fishing boats put to sea at four o'clock in the morning to enable the fishermen to attend to their crab pots. A fresh easter- ly wind was blowing, and during the morning...
Aurelia
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 5th of June, 1954, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the coaster Talacre, which was at anchor in the estuary of the River Dee, had reported that a yacht with two youths on board had...
Acorn
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 7.5 on the even- ing of.the 3rd of July, 1954, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that the local motor launch Acorn, which had a crew of four, had broken down off Blackbottle Head and was drifting towards a lee shore. At 7...
Tranquillity (1)
Barrow, Lancashire.—During the after- noon of the 8th of September, 1954, the Walney Island coastguard noticed a fishing boat near Half-Way buoy and saw later that she had anchored a mile south of it. At five o'clock the coast- guard...
Venus
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.9 on the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing vessel was burning flares north-north-east of Kettleness.
At 1.19 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...
Shellduck
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 11.20 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1955, the Polruan coastguard rang up to say that a sailing dinghy had capsized three-quarters of a mile south-west of Blackbottle. At 11.35 the life-boat Deneys Reitz put out...