LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Sunfleet
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At three o'clock on the after- noon of the 28th of May, 1955, the Gorleston coastguard reported that a local doctor had received a message from the S.S. Sunfleet, of Goole. asking if a man on board,...
Tom Boy
Hythe, Kent.—At 10.50 A.M. on the 2nd August it was reported verbally to the coxswain that a flare had been seen from a yacht. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat The Viscountess Wakefield was launched at...
Andante
Girvan, Ayrshire - At 5.20 p.m. on 26th April, 1970, the motor mechanic of the life-boat reported that a yacht was in difficulties off the harbour and drifting towards the dangerous coast south of Girvan. At 5.35 the life-boat James and...
John Briscoe
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.35 on the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say a motor fishing vessel was on the rocks at Divas Head. The life-saving ap- paratus team and a helicopter had been summoned, and at...
Fishing Vessels and two R.A.F. Pinnaces
NORTH-EAST ENGLAND Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 9.15 a.m.
on 4th November, 1963, the honorary secretary was told that ten fishing vessels were at sea in worsening weather conditions. By 1.25 p.m. the wind had increased to...
Peel Castle, of Fleetwood
Workington, Cumberland - At 7.35 p.m. on 5th January, 1969, the coastguard reported that distress flares had been sighted off Workington. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX slipped her moorings at 8 o'clock. It was low water. The...
A Rowing Boat (1)
At 8.25 p.m. on 2nd September, 1969, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been sighted about four miles east of the coastguard lookout.
The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 8.35 in a moderate...
Sommen
INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF SWEDISH VESSEL Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 9.38 on the morning of the 6th February, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Sommen of Gothenberg had wirelessed for medical help as a seaman...
Sirius
TOW TO RAMSGATE At 10.32 a.m. on the following day the watchman on the east pier told the honorary secretary that a yacht was making heavy weather on passage off Ramsgate. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out at 10.45 i° a...
H.M.S. Plover
Newcastle, Co. Down. H.M.S. Plover, visiting Newcastle, was due to sail early on the fth August, 1965, for the Clyde.
However, her commanding officer and forty ratings were stranded ashore as the liberty boat had grounded...