LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Althea
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 8.35 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1954, the Needles coastguard telephoned that a vessel needed help off South West Shingles Buoy. At 8.44 the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1, on...
Ariadne Johanna
Berwick-on- Tweed, Northumberland.
—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing vessel Ariadne Johanna, of Schevenin- gen, which was one mile east of the pier,...
The Cabin Cuiser Ruth
Exmouth, Devon.—At 4.18 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was burning a white light about three miles south-east of Orcombe Point. At 4.39 the life-boat Maria Noble was launched. There was a...
Pat IV
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 8th of November, 1954, two fishermen who had just come in from sea told the life-boat coxswain that a motor-boat had a broken rudder in Pegwell Bay. At 6.35, in a flooding tide, the life-boat...
Fishing Boats (5)
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 8.16 on the morning of the 7th of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing coble had run aground at the harbour entrance, and that the coast- guard Life-Saving Apparatus Com- pany had been called...
None (1)
Stromness, Orkneys.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 14th of Jan- uary, 1955, a local doctor asked if the life-boat would take a sick woman in need of hospital treatment to Scapa pier, because the road from Stromness to Kirkwall...
The S.S. Foch Rose
Walmer, Kent.—At 6.5 on the morn- ing of the 24th of February, 1955, the Deal coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Foch Rose, of Liverpool, which had a crew of twelve, had run aground on Oldstairs Shoal. At 6.30 the life- boat Charles Dibdin,...
True Vine
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—Early on the morning of the 22nd of March, 1955, the local fishing boat True Vine put out with a crew of four. She had not returned by mid-day, and at 12.35, half an hour before high water, the life- boat W. Ross...
None (2)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1955, the St. John Ambulance Brigade asked if the life-boat would fetch a sick man from Sark. As the local marine ambulance was out of commis- sion and no other...
None (3)
Dover, Kent. — On the morning of the 8th of May, 1955, two soldiers who were bird's-nesting at South Foreland, were cut off by the tide. The Sand- gate coastguard rang up the life-boat station at 11.22, and at noon the life- boat E.M.E.D...