LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Patriot
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 22nd of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that the trawler Patriot, of Rostock, had asked for a doctor. Tidal conditions were unsuitable for a shoreboat to put out, and at 10.28 the No...
A R.A.F. Air Sea Rescue Launch
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 6.46 on the evening of the 8th of October, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a boat had reported that she was on the Red Sands and needed help. At 6.55 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was...
Alva Bay
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 2.54 on the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1953, the coastguard tele- phoned that the tanker Alva Bay, of London, which was .one mile south-east of Mumbles Head, had reported that she had a very sick man on...
A Sailing Cutter
Reserve life-boat.—At 9.30 on the 10th of November, 1953, the reserve life- boat Thomas Markby put out from a shipbuilders' yard at Littlehampton in a swell and light south-south-east breeze. She was to undergo machin-ery trials...
Edward
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 6th of December, 1953, the life-boat Tynesider was launched for a routine exercise. On completing the exercise she made for her station again, but when she was nearing Tyne North...
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Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At 10.25 on the nightof the 31st of Decem- ber, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a doctor had reported that a woman on Bardsey Island was serious- ly ill. The doctor asked if the life- boat would take...
The S.S. Antigone
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.47 on the even- ing of the 31st of January, 1954, the coastguard reported that a message had been received by the North Fore- land radio station that the S.S.
Antigone, of Antwerp, needed help ten miles...
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Fleetwood, Lancashire.—About 11.30 on the night of the 5th of February, 1954. the Formby coastguard rang up to say that a woman at Knott End had reported that she had seen red flares between Fleetwood and Barrow. At 1.15 on the 6th the...
Sea Eagle
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.35 on the evening of the 29th of May, 1954, the police at Great Yarmouth telephoned that the motor cruiser Sea Eagle, of Norwich, with three young men on board, had run ashore in Breydon Water and...
A Rubber Dinghy
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the police had reported two boys drifting out to sea in a rubber dinghy off Seaton Carew. The life-boat The Princess Royal...