LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Swanage, Dorset.—About 5.50 on the afternoon of the 1st of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that two people were cut off by the tide at Kimmeridge Ledge, and that a yacht was ashore there. Five minutes later the life-boat Edmund...

Troon, Ayrshire.—At 2.30 on the after- noon of the 22nd of October, 1955, two boys told the coxswain that a motor boat was in difficulties near the rocks off Ballast Bank. Ten minutes later the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out....

Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 7.45 on the morning of the 17th of December, 1955, a message was received from the harbour office that the local fishing boat Winifred, with a crew of four, had broken down three miles south-east of Flamborough...

Girvan, Ayrshire.—About nine o'clock on the night of the 27th of February, 1956, the police reported that the fishing boat Incentive, of Dunure, had sent a radio message that she had lost her rudder and was lying at anchor about two and...

Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 8.40 on the evening of the 13th of March, 1956, the Southend coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Lochinvar, of Glasgow, which had a crew of fifteen, had wirelessed that she had struck the rocks at...

Hastings, Sussex.—At 8.27 on the morning of the 27th of May, 1956, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned to say a fishing boat with three men on board was drifting out to sea off St. Leonards.

At 8.50 the life-boat M.T.C. was...

Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 6.30 on the evening of the 9th of July, 1960, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was ashore on Aber- tay sandbank on the south side of the entrance to the Tay. As no other boat was...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 10.27 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1960, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a girl had been seen floating from the beach on a rubber mattress. The life- boat Louise...