LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Dinghies
RESCUED MAN'S DOUBLE DONATIONS Skegness, Lincolnshire. The Skegness coastguard told the coxswain at 12.16 on the afternoon of Monday the 9th September, 1963, that a dinghy with two people on board had capsized off Jackson's Corner....
The S.S. Salvinia
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.44 early on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat was in distress off Tollesbury pier in the River Blackwater, and that people were shouting for...
The Greek S.S. Pontoporos
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 9.30 on the morning of the 6th of November, 1956, a doctor telephoned to say that the Greek S.S. Pontoporos, which was south-west of the Scilly Isles, had a seriously injured man on board who required a doctor urgently....
Kristina Thorden
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—On the morning of the 24th of November, 1956, a message was received from the Swedish motor vessel Kristina Thorden that she had a very sick man on board.
She asked the life-boat to meet her at...
Albatross
Margate, Kent.—At 6.35 on the even- ing of the 9th of July, 1957, the coast- guard telephoned that a cabin cruiser was ashore on the north-west corner | of Margate sands and that she had a 1 heavy list to port. At 6.43 the life- : boat North...
A Dinghy
Dover, Kent. At 10.30 p.m. on i6th January, 1965, the police informed the honorary secretary that two men had set out for the Mole in a small dinghy leaving a third man on the beach who was to be picked up after one of the men had been...
St. Lucia, of Lowestoft
At 11.20 p.m. on yth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a very sick man on board the trawler St. Lucia of Lowestoft 105 miles north-east of the Tyne and that a helicopter would lift him off at 5...
Greyhound, of Liverpool
JULY 19TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
At six in the morning information was received from the Dock Board that a fishing boat was ashore on the revetment opposite Gamma Buoy, with spray going over her. A fresh westerly breeze...
Manx Lass, of Peel
SEPTEMBER 18TH. -PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. At 11.21 in the morning the Castletown coastguard reported to the Port Erin life-boat station that the Peel life-boat, had launched at eleven o’clock to search for the herring drifter Manx...
The Balloon Vessel Thora
APRIL 26TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 2.50 A.M. the naval authorities reported that the balloon vessel Thora had got on to the boom defence, but that the tug Yorkshireman was going to her help. A whole W.S.W. gale was...