LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ena
Hastings, Sussex. — At 2.50 in the afternoon of the 22nd of September, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a local fisherman had reported to the police that a fishing vessel was making signals of distress off St. Leonards Pier.
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The S.S. Windward Islands
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 10th of July, 1954, a shipping agency at Preston telephoned to ask if the life-boat would start out to the S.S. Windward Islands, of Gothenburg, which was due off the Nelson Buoy...
Tranquillity
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 9.30 on the morning of the 22nd of July, 1954, the Walney Island coastguard telephonedthat a fishing vessel was reported to have been at anchor five miles north- by-east of Selker buoy since the prev- ious afternoon...
Phrontis
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1954, the police reported that a member of the crew of the local steam trawler Phrontis. which had left for a fishing trip, was ill and that she was returning to Fleetwood....
The Dailing Dinghy Imp and a Canoe
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 13th of August, 1954, the police reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Meols. At 2.49 the life-boat Oldham IV was launched.
The sea was rough, a moderate westerly...
Island Commodore
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1954, the motor vessel Island Commo- dore, of London, bound for Cherbourg with thirty-seven people on board, wire- lessed the life-boat station that her steering...
Osterling
Swanage, Dorset.—About 3.23 on the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1954, the coastguard rang to say that the S.S. Eptanissos, of Ithaka, had wirelessed that she had found a yacht in difficulties two miles south-east of Bournemouth and...
Scaup
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1954, the Sheerness police reported that a yacht was in distress off Minster. At 3.30 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched. The sea was very...
A Motor Fishing Vessel
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 28th of October, 1954, the film unit at Fishguard mak- ing the film Moby Dick reported that a dummy whale being used for the film had broken away from the tug towing it. The film...
White Heather
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—On the after- noon of the 29th of November, 1954, the motor fishing vessel White Heather, of Berwick, fouled her propeller off St.
Abbs. At 3.5 the life-boat W. Ross Macarthur of Glasgow was launched...