LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Swiftsure
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2.15 on the morning of the 4th of September, 2959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had gone ashore on the north side of Wick harbour in thick fog. At 2.55 the life- boat City of...
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Dover, Kent. — At 5.57 on the evening of the 30th of May, 1955. the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that two boys had been cut off by the tide at Big Fall, South Foreland.' At 6.20 the life-boat E.M.E.D., on temporary duty at the station,...
Spray
Stromness, Orkneys. At one o'clock early on the morning of the 21st of July, 1960, the police informed the honorary secretary that after a small yacht had stranded under Ness Battery one of her crew had come ashore to get help, but on...
Ameland
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 3.25 on the morning of the 16th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the motor vessel Ameland, of Gliickstadt, was aground on Holm Sand about three and a half miles east of Lowestoft. She...
Deevale
RED FLARES SEEN Lerwick, Shetlands. At about 12.20 a.m. on 27th April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted from the direction of Ham on the island of Bressay. There were light southerly airs...
Farsaell
ICELANDIC VESSEL Longhope, Orkneys. At i p.m. on i6th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Icelandic fishing vessel Farsaell was adrift in moderate seas off Torness. She had engine trouble and required...
Ocean Breaker
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, a local yacht club told the life-boat coxswain that a yacht was in distress near the club's slipway at Westcliff. At 3.10 the life-boat Greater...
A Sailing Dinghy
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 4.22 on the afternoon of the 13th of January, 1957, the Fairlight coast- guard telephoned that a sailing dinghy needed help four miles south of Bex- hill. At 4.37 the Hastings life-boat M.T.C. was...
The M.F.V.125
DECEMBER 15TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 4.50 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a motor fishing vessel near the Wallet Spit Buoy was flashing signals and might be in need of help, and the motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden...
Books
Some recent publications reviewed Mumbles Lifeboat by Carl Smith, published by Sou'wester Books at £3.50 ISBN 09515281 06 The history of the Mumbles lifeboat station is a long and gallant one, and the author has captured both the...
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