LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Undaunted
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.— At 9.50 on the night of the 3rd of November, 1957, the Assistant In- spector of Irish Lights telephoned to say he had received a message from Tuskar Rock that a boat was burning flares two miles west of...
Mercurius H.
Dungeness, Kent. At 5.30 on the morning of the 26th of November, 1957, a member of the life-boat crew reported that a vessel was ashore a mile and a half west of the life-boat station.
The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was...
Tom Pepper
Dover, Kent. At 9.10 on the night of the 26th of May, 1958, the Sandgate coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was drifting without lights a mile and a half south of the coastguard station. At 9.30 the life- boat...
Lassie
Arbroath, Angus. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 2nd of March, 1959, the fishing boat Bairns Pride left Arbroath to look for the fishing boat Lassie, which was overdue from the fishing grounds. At 9.50 she sent a radio message...
The Ship's Boat Volga
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.20 on the night of the 23rd of April, 1959, a stageman told the honorary secretary that a converted ship's boat was adrift off New Brighton with two young men and two girls on board. At 10.32 the life-boat...
Taiseer
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 10.5 on the evening of the 17th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Taiseer, which was anchored at the entrance to St.
Ives harbour, was making distress...
Jewel
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 8.17 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel was showing distress signals three and a half miles north-east of Peterhead. At 8.30 the...
Adele Jeanne
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 4.35 on the morning of the 6th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht with a crew of four had been reported in difficulties some fifteen miles south- east of St....
None
Dover, Kent. At 6.15 on the evening of the 16th of July, 1960, the police re- ported that a number of people had been cut off by the tide at Fan Bay.
The life-boat Southern Africa put out, towing her boarding boat, in a...
Fairwinds
Swanage, Dorset. At 6.44 on the evening of the 4th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the motor vessel Camroux I of London had a yacht in tow which she wished to hand over. As no other boat was available,...