LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1954, the coastguard reported that a vessel appeared to be aground in a dangerous position near North Goodwin buoy.

At 10.36 the life-boat Michael and Lily...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.9 on the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing vessel was burning flares north-north-east of Kettleness.

At 1.19 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...

Walmer, Kent.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 25th of November, 1954, the coxswain noticed that a ship in the Downs was showing a flag signi- fying that she was disabled. At 10.40, at high water, the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil...

Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1954, the Wick coastguard telephoned that the motor iishing vessel Amber Queen, which had a crew of five, had wirelessed that she had broken down and needed help...

Thurso, Caithness-shire. — At eight o'clock on the evening of the 14th of January, 1955, the police asked if the life-boat would take provisions to Reay, as the roads were blocked by snow, and also convey a body in a coffin to Port-...

Dover, Kent. — At 5.57 on the evening of the 30th of May, 1955. the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that two boys had been cut off by the tide at Big Fall, South Foreland.' At 6.20 the life-boat E.M.E.D., on temporary duty at the station,...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.43 on the morning of the 12th of June, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the yacht Blotto, of Felixstowe, was in dis- tress near Blacktail Spit buoy off Shoe- buryness. At noon the life-boat Greater London II...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the 15th of July, 1955, the No. 2 life-boat Lucy Lovers was bound for her station from Oulton Broad following a routine survey. About 1.10 in the afternoon, when she had reached a position one mile south of Southwold,...