LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sir James
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 2.36 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the coaster Sir James, of London, which had a crew of five, was sheltering in Church Bay, Rathlin Island, but was dragging her...
A Motor Boat
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 14th of May, 1956, the Kildonan coastguard telephoned the coxswain to say that the police had reported that two people in a motor boat had been seen waving and appeared to need help. At five...
Gladstone Star's Boat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. On the 27th of June, 1958, while the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was at sea carrying out machinery trials, the coxswain received a message from the pilot boat British Angler that a...
A Sailing Boat and Dinghy
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 9.40 on the evening of the 28th August, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from some boys that a boat was being carried out to sea by the strong ebb tide and that the...
Skugga
Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.25 on the night of the llth of September, 1955, the Lade coastguard rang up to say that a boat was burning red flares east of Rye Harbour. Ten minutes later the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched. The sea...
A Dinghy
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 2.30 early on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1954, the Fire Brigade reported that firemen at Rosemullion Head were hauling two men up a cliff. The men had been in a fourteen-feet dinghy with another man, but the...
Tregenna Castle
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 9.45 on the night of the 15th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that a skiff with one man aboard was adrift in the bay with no oars. The life-boat Edgar George Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 10.10 in a...
Ann Young
YACHT ESCORTED INTO HARBOUR Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.3 on the evening of the 1st April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties half a mile east of Quern buoy and was flying distress signals. There...
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Humber, Yorkshire - At 1.50 p.m.
on 30th April, 1966, a motorist told the coxswain superintendent that a small aircraft had crashed into the sea about two miles north of Spurn. There was a gentle south-easterly wind and a...
Fendyke
Knockdown A COASTER, Fendyke, in trouble off Carnoustie a few miles north of the entrance to the River Tay was reported to the honorary secretary (operations)of Broughty Ferry lifeboat station, who is also the harbour master, by HM...