LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Flensburg
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 11.50 on the night of the 22nd of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Flensburg of Kiel wanted to land a sick seaman.
The honorary secretary agreed that...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 5.35 on the evening of the 21st of February, I960, the office of the Commissioners of Irish Lights informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the Coningbeg lightvessel was suffering from blood...
A Motor Punt
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. — At eleven in the morning of the 13th of March, 1952, a man left Cork for Ballycotton in a motor punt. He had not arrived by eight o'clock that night. The keepers of the Power Head Lighthouse, eight miles west of...
Liver Bird
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—-At 2.45 in the afternoon of the 10th of April, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was in distress two miles north-by-west of Great Orme Lighthouse, and at 3.36 the life-boat Thomas and Annie...
The Ex-Motor Fishing Vessel Willroy
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 3.43 in the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1952, the Trevose Head coastguard tele- phoned that the s.s. British Supremacy had wirelessed that she had taken in tow the ex-motor fishing vessel Will- roy, of Fleetwood, with...
The Sailing Boat Janet
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1952, the sailing boat Janet, racing with a crew of two about two hundred yards off shore, was seen to capsize, and the life-boat William Gammon—Manchester and...
The Converted Naval Steam Launch Nasus
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 9.55 on the night of the 10th of September, 1952, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that a yacht appeared to have broken down and was drifting to the northward, but the coastguard stated that she was...
The S.S. Araton
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1952, a local shipping agency asked if the life-boat would land an injured man from the S.S. Araton, of Stock- holm, which was lying two miles south-west of the Lightning...
Purbeck
Dungeness, Kent.—At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1952, an ex-life-boat coxswain tele- phoned that a vessel had gone ashore on Newcombe Sands. The tide was very low, and at 7.45, when it had risen sufficiently, the life-boat...
Pansy
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.15 on the evening of the 15th of January, 1953.
it was reported that the local motor boat Pansy, with a crew of two, had broken down and was drifting off Noss Head, and at 6.40 the life-boat City...