LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Matelot
Dover, Kent.—At 6.27 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1953, the Sand- gate coastguard rang up to say a yacht had burnt a red flare one and a half miles east of Folkestone pier and was making for Dover. At 6.44 the life- boat The Lord...
Lesley
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.20 early on the 15th of August, 1953, the stageman told the coxswain that a yachtsman had reported that he had seen another yacht in distress off R.7 Buoy in the Rock Channel. At 12.45 the life-boat Norman B....
The S.S. Nestos
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.31 on the morning of the 21st of October, 1953, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Nestos, of Piraeus, which was anchored in the River Humber, had wirelessed that three of her crew were adrift in a...
Alf Everard and the S.S. Sir Alexander Kennedy
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 6.39 on the evening of the 24th of December, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a steamer had wirelessed that another steamer had collided with the motor vessel Alf Everard, of London, off Sea Reach. At 6.55...
The S.S. Ivor Isabel and the S.S. Aase Maersk
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 12.45 on the morning of the 9th of February, 1954, the Nell's Point coastguard reported that the S.S. Ivor Isabel, of London, and the S.S. Aase Maersk, of Nyborg, Denmark, had been in collision between...
Zuava
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 6.5 on the evening of the llth of March, 1954, the Fleetwood life-boat coxswain rang up to say that the fishing boat Zuava, of Fleetwood, had broken down two miles north-north-west of Lightning Knoll Buoy. At 6.35 the...
Muirneag II and Bounteous
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 9.20 on the night of the 29th of March, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen in Broad Bay.
At 9.45 the life-boat William and Harriot put out. The sea was rough with a...
Advance
PETERHKAD.—At about 4.0 P.M. on the 25th July, information was received that a fishing boat was stranded at Scotston Head. A moderate breeze was blowing from N.E., there was a heavy swell and the weather was very thick. The Life-boat George...
William and Richard
At 2.30 A.M. on the 12th April the Coast- guard at Shoeburyness reported that the Nore Light-vessel was firing signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 were assembled and the boat proceeded to the Light-vessel,...
Susie
During a moderate N.N.E. breeze on the 31st March the dandy Susie of Yarmouth was seen to go ashore on the Bell Buoy shoal and to begin to bump heavily in the rough sea. It was then 4.30 P.M.
and within a few minutes the...