LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Crescence
Seaham, Durham.—At 9.45 on the night of the 13th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned a message from Cullercoats Radio Station that a vessel was in distress, four miles east of Seaham Harbour, and the life-boat Elizabeth Witts Allen was...
Dawlish
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 12.15 in the morning of the 27th of July, 1949, during a dense fog, the coastguard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Dawlish, of London, that she was ashore at North Bishop, At one o'...
Dorie
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At half past two in the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1949, an urgent message was received from the Shoeburyness police that a woman in a motor yacht was drifting into the boom. The life-boat Greater London, Civil...
Greyhound
New B ight n, Cheshire.—At 8.40 in the evening of the 5th of September, 1949, the c xswain of the Hoylake life- boat telephoned that a fishing boat was sending up flares in Hilbre Swash.
Accordingly at 9.5 the No. 1...
A Crashed Firefly Aeroplane
Penlee, Cornwall.—About 3.18 in the afternoon of the 19th of September, 1949, the Penzer Point coastguard tele- phoned that Culdrose Air Station had reported a crashed Firefly aeroplane, three miles south of Penzer Point. A Sea Otter rescue...
Thyme
Tke Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the llth of December, 1954, the coast- guard reported that a fishing vessel appeared to be in difficulties near Rhossilly, but later stated that she was making way...
A Rowing Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.10 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1954, the coastguard reported that two men in a rowing boat two miles east of the pier were waving a white rag on an oar. At 11.23 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Raring was...
Howard
Peterhead, Aberdeenshlre.—At 6.35 on the evening of the 29th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Howard, of Hull, had wirelessed that she had a very sick man on board and had asked if the life-boat would take...
Gwen
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 11.27 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1955, the Sunderland coast- guard telephoned that the Souter light- house had reported that a small boat could be seen drifting off Souter...
The Tender Sybella (M.F.V. 1564)
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.55 on the morning of the 8th of July, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the Ports- mouth naval authorities had reported that the fleet tender Sybella (M.F.V.
1564) had gone aground east of Beachy...