LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Spurt
Moelfre, Anglesey.—6th December. At 6.20 P.M. a message was received from Point Lynas that the 3,000-ton Norwegian steamer Spurt was in distress in the Moelfre roads. A whole N. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and the weather was...
None (1)
Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 22nd of November, 1954, the coxswain reported that the Warden of the Calf of Man, who had been stranded at Port St. Mary for six days by bad weather, was anxious to return to the island...
Ferm
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire. — At 5.21 on the afternoon of the 25th of July, 1955, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the motor ship Ferm, of Grimstad, Norway, which was out- ward bound, had wirelessed that a member of her crew had...
Zinita
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of September, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had anchored off the East pier, but that the anchor was dragging. The yacht signalled for help, and at 4.35 the life-boat...
Bannprince and the S.S. Ocean Coast
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 10.3 on the night of the 12th of November, 1955, a message was received from the port radar station that a coaster had been sunk in a collision near Formby light-float. Seven minutes later the life-boat Norman B....
Enterprize
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of June, 1956, the weather was deteriorating. The local fishing fleet was at sea, and the position of one boat gave some cause for anxiety, so it was decided to launch the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...
Va-Sans-Peur
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At 6.30 in the morning of the 25th of March, 1948, information was received from Dyffryn that two men had landed in a dinghy from the French fishing vessel Va-Sans-Peur, of Concarneau, bound for Liverpool, and had...
An Aeroplane (1)
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 5.43 in the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1948, the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea twenty miles east of Kinnaird, and the motor life-boat John and Charles Ken- nedy was launched...
Ben Bheula
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 12.30 in the morning of the 16th of March, 1949, the Kilchoman coastguard reported a message from McArthur's Head Lightr house that a vessel was flashing S.O.S.
signals one mile from the...
A Skilful Rescue In Unknown Waters
AT 12.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1952 the coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides that the crew of a local motor boat, the Mayflower, were marooned on rocks.
The...
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