LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mab
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 3.40 on the morning of the 6th of June, 1955, the life-boat shore attendant reported that a vessel was burning flares on the south side of the harbour. At 3.55 the life-boat A.E.D. put out. The sea was rough, there...
A Sailing Dinghy
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.3 on the evening of the 7th of July, 1952, the Wallasey police telephoned that a sailing dinghy had capsized in the river Mersey off Egremont, and that two people were in the water. The life-boat Edmund and Mary...
Friso
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 9.10 on the night of the 6th of December, 1952, the harbour master reported that he had seen flares about four miles east of Clogher Head pier, and at 9.50 the life-boat George and Caroline Ermen was launched....
Adriana Johanna
Walmer, Kent. At 2.18 early on the morning of the 27th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen approximately one mile north-north- west of the East Goodwin lightvessel.
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 7.15 on the evening of the 1st August, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over the cliff at Monkstone beach. Five minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched on a...
Paulina
Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.41 on the morning of the 6th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the yacht Paulina needed help five miles south of Portland Bill.
The life-boat Lloyd's, on...
Armen
Dover, Kent. — At 11.50 on the morning of the 13th of August, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard reported that the German tanker Wilhelmina Ess- berger had requested the help of the life-boat to land survivors from the French yacht Armen. Her...
Brief Encounter, of Southampton
Poole, Dorset.—At 4.15 on the morning of the 29th of May, 1957, the South- bourne coastguard telephoned that a small yacht needed help as she was aground opposite the Sandbanks pavi- lion. The life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright put out at 4.25 in...
Beatrice
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 9.36 on the evening of the 28th of May, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that distress signals were being shown in Yarmouth Roads. The life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station,...
Bridesmaid
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 2.16 in the morning of the 30th of December, 1948, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that a distress call had been sent out by the Fleetwood steam trawler Brides- maid, which was ashore at the north end of Islay...