LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aud Schou
The Humber, Yorkshire.—In the morning of the 12th November the life-boat watchman saw a small vessel flying a signal, and drifting slowly towards the Binks Sands. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a nasty sea. The motor life-boat City...
St. Kieran
Galway Bay.—At 10.30 on the morn- ing of the 1st of June, 1954, the life- boat coxswain noticed that the trawler St. Kieran, of Galway, had gone aground at Straw Island about one mile east of Kilronan. At eleveno'clock the life-boat...
The Converted Ship's Boat Venture
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 9.20 on the evening of the 18th of July, 1954, a life-boatman, who was at Gibraltar Point, reported that a yacht was flying a distress signal three miles south- south-west of Skegness. At 9.50 the life-boat The...
Dawn Star
Padstow, Cornwall.—About 7.30 on the morning of the 6th of November, 1954, the Trevose Head coastguard tele- phoned that the Newquay police had reported a boat on fire in Watergate Bay. The No. 1 life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadmck put out in a...
The Barges Julia Pile and Nellie Ann
Appledore, Devon.—At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 6th of December, 1954, the coxswain reported that the barges Julia Pile and Nellie Ann, of Barnstaple, which each had a crew of two, had got into difficulties off Crow Point while collecting...
None (5)
Galway Bay.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th of December, 1954, the doctor at Kilronan asked if the life-boat would take an eighty- three-year-old man in urgent need of surgical treatment from Inishmaine Island to the mainland...
None (7)
Galway Bay.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of February, 1955, the local doctor asked if the life- boat would take a sick man in need of hospital treatment to the mainland, as no other suitable boat was...
Persevere
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.8 on the afternoon of the 19th of March, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the motor barge Persevere, of Rochester, which had a crew of two, had brokendown and sprung a leak and had been taken in tow by a motor...
Gava
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 10.30 on the night of the llth of April, 1955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Gava, of Aber- deen, wrhich had a crew of thirteen, had reported that she had gone ashore at Duncansby Head....
A Dinghy
Hastings, Sussex.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 7th of Mav, 1055, the Fail-light coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Eastbourne police that two men were adrift in a dinghy two miles off Langney Point....