LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 15th of February, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Primrose, which had a crew of four, had not returned and had last been seen by fishermen near Mav...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1955, the coast- guard reported that the S.S. Flathouse, of London, which was in the Roads, had asked for a boat to land her mate, who had been taken ill....

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 on the morning of the 13th of November, 1955. the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel burning white flares could be seen two miles to the east- ward. At 3.1 the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepzvorth was launched....

North Sunderland, Northumberland.— About 5.30 on the evening of the 2nd of February, 1956, the life-boat assis- tant mechanic rang up to say that the wife of a fisherman had reported that her husband had not returned in his local fishing...

Troon, Ayrshire.—At 9.46 on the night of the 9th of April, 1956, the Port- patrick coastguard reported that the S.S. Akka, of Gothenburg, had wire- lessed that she had gone aground on the Gantock Rocks, Dunoon, and that she was sinking. At...

Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 3.32 in the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that two Sabre aeroplanes of the R.C.A.F.

had collided near the Wainfleet bomb- ing range and that a parachute had been...

Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 12th of June, 1952, a resident of Bonahaven reported that a motor boat had run ashore half a mile from Bonahaven, and at 10.20 the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth left her moorings....

AT 10.20 on the night of the 27th of July, 1952, the Flamborough Head coastguard telephoned the Flam- borough life-boat station that a young man had reported a friend of his in difficulties on a cliff near the Stacks Rocks at Flamborough...