LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Enterprise II, Galilee, Faith Star, Success II, Lead Us and Pilot Me II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.15 on the morning of the 3rd of January, 1953, local fishermen reported that the motor fishing coble Enterprise II, of Whitby, was at sea in deteriorating weather, and at 9.30 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.— At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 28th of March, 1953, a woman rang up from Harbour View to say that a rowing boat with a crew of three was on the rocks near Harbour View to the east side of Courtmacsherry...
Marion
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 12.19 on the afternoon of the 2nd of June, 1953, the coastguard told the life-boat cox- swain that a motor boat appeared to be in distress three quarters of a mile off Pakefield and was flying distress signals. At...
The S.S. Nordeflinge
Workington, Cumberland.—On the 29th of July, 1953, the S.S. Nordeflinge, of Cardiff, reached Workington and anchored off the harbour. She re- ported that she was short of food, and as no other boat was available, the life-boat Manchester and...
Coima
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 1.46 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1953, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that the Hayling Island Sail- ing Club had reported that a yacht off Chichester harbour had lost her rudder and was in...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At eleven o'clock on the night of the 8th of September, 1953, during thick fog, an airman reported that a sailingdinghy was missing, with the owner and another airman on board, and that when last seen the...
Helena
Runswick, Yorkshire.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 27th of September, 1953, the life-boat coxswain reported that the fishing coble Helena could be seen to be in difficulties five miles north-north-west of Staithes. About 1.30 she made a...
Ros Corr
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1953.
the Civic Guard at Portmagee reported that the fishing boat Ros Corr, of Dublin, with a crew of six, needed help seven miles north of Bray Head....
Aquila
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.43 on the morn- ing of the 16th of May, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the yacht Aquila had gone ashore at West Ray Point. At 7.52 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea. There was a moderate sea, and a...
None (7)
Newhaven, Sussex.—During the morning of the 18th June, 1939, four men were cut off by the tide under the Seven Sisters Cliffs, near Seaford. One of them swam to Cuckmere. There the police informed the Newhaven coastguard who passed the news...