LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat
Cullercoats, Northumberland.—-At 4.45 in the afternoon of the 19th of March, 1950, the Tynemouth coast- guard telephoned that two men ap- peared to be in difficulties in a rowing boat two and a half miles to the east- ward. At 4.50 the...
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Holyhead, Anglesey. —• On the after- noon of the 20th of May, 1950, it was learned through the Trinity House Depot that a boat was needed to fetch a sick man from the Skerries lighthouse.
The Trinity House vessel was not...
A Rubber Dinghy (2)
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 5.8 in the evening, on the 28th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy was in distress off North Shore.
At 5.34 the life-boat Anne Allen was launched in a choppy sea with a...
Serento
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.18 on the afternoon of the 5th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht had capsized off Leewick Sands. Two men were clinging to her. At 2.20 the life-boat Edward Z.
Dresden was...
Crest
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 11.32 in the morning of the 13th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing boat had been reported on fire off Skirza Head, and at 11.45 the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched. The sea...
Vega
EMPTY YACHT ADRIFT Wicklow.—At 10.80 in the morning of the 10th of November, 1947, the owner of the sailing yacht Vega, of Wicklow, reported that his yacht was adrift 5 miles to the east and, as no other boat was available, asked for the...
Motor Fishing Vessel No. 799
PROPELLER LOST Walmer, Kent—During the afternoon of the 19th of January, 1948, a motor fishing vessel was drifting in the Downs, and a passing steamer signalled for help for her. At 3.40 the motor life- boat Charles Dibdin—Civil Service No....
Noamh Seunan
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.— During the afternoon of the 28th of February, 1948, a fishing boat was re- ported flying distress signals four and a half miles to the westward, and the motor life-boat Annie Blanche Smith was launched at...
A Small Boat
Longhope, Orkneys.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 1st of July, 1949, a message was received by telephone that a man, who had put out from Saltness in a small boat the previous evening to attend to his lobster creels, had not...
The Sailing Barge Will Everard
Great Yarmouth and Gorlesfon, Norfolk.
—At 6.30 in the evening of the 17th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a barge was ashore on the Caister Shoal, and the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 6.40 in a...