LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Quinquereme
ANCHOR TROUBLE Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 12.50 p.m.
on 3rd May, 1964, the yacht Quinquereme, which had a crew of four, ran aground on the Layan sands. She refloated on the rising tide, but appeared to be in need of help, so...
Svenska
Margate, Kent.—At 12.42 on the after- noon of the 24th of July, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht had run ashore on the Hook Sands.
At 12.50 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI was...
Mary Ellen
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.39 on the night of the 27th of May, 1950, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the Sunk Lightvesset had reported what it thought to be a flare about two miles south-south-east of the...
Jupiter
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1950, the Wallasey Police reported that two people on a yacht at the foot of the sea wall were calling for help. At 4.45 the No. 2 life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson put...
Omega
Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.19 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the piermaster had seen some people in a yacht in the harbour waving for help.
At 12.30 the life-boat R.L.P. was...
Ros Caoin
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 6.20 on the evening of the 9th of April, 1958, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Ros Caoin needed help at the mouth of the Kenmare River. At 6.30 the life-boat William and Harriot, on...
Jamaica
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 6.20 on the morning of the 2nd of May, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the steam trawler Jamaica of Fleetwood, with a crew of twelve, was ashore on the north-west boulders on the south side of...
Lady Francis
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
While the life-boat Grace Darling was escorting the royal barge during the visit of H.M. the Queen and H.R.H.
the Duke of Edinburgh to Holy Island on the 29th of June,...
Lassie
Arbroath, Angus. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 2nd of March, 1959, the fishing boat Bairns Pride left Arbroath to look for the fishing boat Lassie, which was overdue from the fishing grounds. At 9.50 she sent a radio message...
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Galway Bay. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1959, a request was received from the local doctor for the use of the life-boat to convey a child, who urgently needed hospital treatment, from Inishmaan Island to the...