LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jean
Newbiggin, Northumberland. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 22nd of November, 1957, it was reported that all the local fishing boats with the exception of the Jean had landed. As conditions were becoming worse, the life-boat...
A Navigation Barge
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of December, 1957, the police passed on to the coxswain a message from the navigation barge moored off Lytham that one of the watchmen had fallen and broken several ribs....
The Sailing Boat Sarah
Wicklow.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 17th of August, 1954, a man at Arklow rang up to say that the 24-feet sailing boat Sarah, of Wicklow, had left Arklow for Wicklow earlier in the day with four men on board. At 7.30 the Wicklow Head...
Trenchemer
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 5.14 on the afternoon of the 29th of August, 1954, the Needles coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had gone ashore about two and a half miles north- north-east of Needles, but that she was in no immediate...
Cormorant
Runswick, Yorkshire.—About 8.30 on the evening of the 29th of August1954, a yacht off Staithes was seen to be in difficulties, and it was noticed that her crew of three had lowered her sails. Her engine did not appear to be very powerful,...
Ellendale
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — At 7.45 on the morning of the 29th of Sep- tember, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning flares three hundred yards off Porth Nant Quarry.
At 8.10 the life-boat Charles...
Hilda II, Rachel, Betty Sheader, Rosemary and Easter Morn
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 25th of October, 1954, the weather worsened while four local fishing cobles were at sea, and at 11.15 the life-boat E.C.J.R. was launched in a flooding tide. The sea was heavy, and a fresh...
Tamar
Salcombe, Devon.—At 9.7 on the night of the 4th of November, 1954, the Prawle Point coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen half a mile south-east of Prawle Point. At 9.20 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse put out. There...
The South Goodwin Lightvessel
Dover, Kent.—On the 4th of January, 1955, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Harwich asked if the life- boat would land an injured fog-signal driver from the South Goodwin light- vessel, as the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to put...
The Blackwater Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 11.50 on the morning of the 20th of January, 1955, the Commissioners of Irish Lights reported that the father of the fog signalman on the Black- water lightvessel had died in Wexford and asked if the...