LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Empire Aid
DECEMBER 19TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
At 4.50 in the morning the coastguard reported distress signals from a tug in Cross Channel in Falmouth Harbour, and the motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare, which had...
None (5)
At 11.9 p.m. on 5th March, 1967, information was given that three men who were climbing to the west of South Stack were overdue. Their car had been found in the South Stack car park. The Holyhead C.R.E. Company and mountain rescue teams had...
Zoe
On the 24th Aug.
the brigantine Zoe, of this place, was ob- served to be lying at anchor off Cooley Point, about nine miles from the Life-boat station, in an apparently disabled state,, she having lost both her masts. It...
Cietrzew
Stronsay, Orkneys.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 3rd of May, 1955, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the Polish trawler Cietrzew had wire- lessed that she was in great danger and needed help 140 miles east of...
Beautiful Star
Dunbar, East Lothian.—During the morning of the 14th of June, 1955, it was reported that the local fishing boat Beautiful Star, which had a crew of two, was overdue. At 12.15 a message from Skateraw stated that she had been seen drifting and...
A Motor Boat (2)
Plymouth, Devon.—At 10.50 on the night of the 27th of June, 1955, the Longroom signal station telephoned that a motor boat needed help outside the breakwater. At 11.10 the life- boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out, with the honorary...
Invictor
Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 23rd of June, 1956, a shipping agent telephoned to say that the fishing boat Invictor, of Folkestone, was disabled with a broken shaft three- quarters of a mile south-east of the life-boat...
A Yacht (1)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties off the Little Orme. Shortly afterwards the yacht...
Rondinella
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.10 on the evening of the 7th May, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a yacht with a crew of three was in distress off Cressington Park. Twelve minutes later, when the life-boat Norman B....
Dorothy Margaret
ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL IN GALE Newhaven, Sussex. At 7.32 on the evening of the 23rd January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Dorothy Margaret had been in difficulties with engine trouble and...