LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brakesea
At 3.45 A.M.
on the llth December, while a whole south-westerly gale was raging, inform- ation was received from the coastguard that a vessel was showing signals of distress about seven miles to the south- eastward of...
Brabloch
BULL BAY.—Signals of distress were shown by a vessel lying between the East Mouse and Amlwch port, on the evening of the 12th January. They were repeated in quick succession, and the Lifeboat Curling was promptly launched, four minutes only...
James and Eleanor
SOUTHWOLD.—On the morning of the 13th January information was received that a vessel was on the outer shoal about a mile N.E. of the town. The No. 1 Life-boat Alfred Oorry put off at 7.30 and found that the vessel was the brig James and...
Tanana
Stronsay, Orkneys. At 1.15 early on the morning of the 5th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Kirkwall told the honorary secretary that a distress message had been sent from a vessel in the Westray Firth. While the life-boat crew were being...
None (1)
Appledore, Devon. On the 7th of January, 1959, the Post Office tele- phone engineer in charge asked the honorary secretary for help in bringing three engineers to Lundy Island, as the only telephone line to the island had been out of action...
Devotion (1)
Anstruther, Fifeshire, and Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 7.34 on the evening of the 27th of January, 1959, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary at Anstruther that the fishing boat Devotion of Kirkcaldy was on fire about a mile and...
British Angler
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht had cap- sized west of the pier. At 3.35 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was...
A Canoe
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd of November, 1959, the police at Holy well told the coxswain that two young men were missing after a canoe had capsized off Greenfields. At 3.10 the life-boat Oldham IV was launched in...
None (2)
Swanage, Dorset. At 8.55 on the evening of the 15th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a number of boys were stranded on the cliff face at Ballard Head. A shore rescue party was trying to reach them, and the...
White Cloud
FREED FROM SANDS At 7.40 p.m. on 25th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser ashore on the Hook Sands had fired a red rocket. There was a moderate south-easterly breeze with a choppy sea and a flooding...