LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Champion and Dawn
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.57 on the evening of the 24th of April, 1957, the watchman on the east pier reported that the motor boat Champion, with a crew of two, which had gone out to help the yacht Dawn, needed help as the key on her propeller...
Janice
Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 25th of April, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with her sails blown away was drifting six and a half miles south-by-east of Durlston Head.
The...
Three Canoes
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 12th of May, 1957, the coastguard re- ported that three canoes appeared to be in difficulties and to be making no pro- gress off Great Orme's Head light- house....
Sea Gipsy
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 24th of June, 1957, a telephone message was received that the 21-feet speed boat Sea Gipsy had broken down six miles south-south- east of the Casquets. At 8.50 the life-boat Euphrosyne...
Ethel May
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 5.31 on the evening of the 6th of July, 1957, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned that a fishing boat needed help a mile and a half south of the harbour. The life-boat W. R. A., on temporary duty...
Spring Flower
Ilfracombe, Devon.—About noon on the 4th of August, 1957, a message was received that a yacht was in diffi- culties off Bull Point. Another yacht had tried to tow her but had failed to make headway and had cast off the tow and made for...
A Dinghy (5)
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 12.32 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1957, the Worthing police reported that a dinghy had capsized a quarter of a mile off Lancing beach. The life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 12.43...
Ystwyth
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 22nd of Septem- ber. 1957, the coastguard passed on a report from the police that two people on board a yacht were in difficulties off the pier and were baling and signal- ling. The...
Starbeam II
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.58 on the afternoon of the 20th of October, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht had capsized south of Clacton pier. At 1.10 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched in a rough sea.
None (1)
Barra Island, Inverness-shire. At 8.30 on the evening of the 25th of October, 1957, a local doctor asked if the life-boat would convey a patient, who was dangerously ill, to Lochbois- dale for hospital treatment. At 9.15 the...