LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Provider A, Easier Morn, Gem, Venus and Enterprise
Whitby, Yorkshire.—In the morning of the 26th of April, 1949, there was a heavy swell at the harbour entrance that would endanger the return of the fishing boats. When five were seen approaching two members of the harbour pulling...
A Rowing Boat
Valentia, Co. Kerry. — At 10 o'clock on the night of the 26th of June, 1949, the Cahirciveen Civic Guard reported a rowing boat, with a broken oar and one adult and four children on board, drifting seawards off Kells. Twenty minutes...
Prize-Winning Essay
A competition, open to secondary schoolboys and schoolgirls under the age of sixteen, for an essay on the subject of the Life-boat Service was held this year. The competition had been held regularly before the war, but it had not been...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies
Six new life-boats were named in 1955.
Four are in Scotland at Stornoway, Stronsay, Stromness, and Troon; two are in England at Southend-on-Sea and Fowey. An account of the Southend naming ceremony appeared in the September...
Category: Inaugurations
A Dinghy
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 8.14 on the morning of the 26th of February, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the Brighton police had reported that a ten-feet dinghy was adrift one mile south-east of the Brighton Palace pier. At 8.25...
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Clovelly, North Devon.—At 10.20 on the night of the llth of May, 1956, the Hartland Point coastguard rang up to sav that Mr. Gade, the resident agent on Lundy Island, was anxious that his son-in-law should be taken to the mainland as soon as...
Gentle Annie
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 6.45 on the morning of the 2nd of June, 1956, the honorary secretary's son reported that the yacht Gentle Annie, of West Kirby, was flying distress signals in a danger- ous position off the north end of East Hoyle...
Judy
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 5th of August, 1952, the Clacton-on-Sea coastguard telephoned that a small sailing yacht was in difficulties about one mile west- south-west of the pier. They had had her...
Rising Venus
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 27th of September, 1952, the honorary secretary saw a motor boat in difficulties off the har- bour and kept her under observation.
She drifted slowly towards the rocks...
Provider A, Pilot Me II, Venus, Lead Us and Progress
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1953.
local fishermen reported that bad weather was making conditions dan- gerous at the harbour bar, and at 1.20 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hep- worth...