LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Una
Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. — Shortly after 10.30 P.M. on the 5th July the coastguard received a message from the Gunfleet lighthouse that the Barrow Deep light-vessel was firing signals of distress. The weather was fine, with a calm sea and...
Helen
Barrow, Lancashire. — At 8.55 on the night of the 7th of July, 1952, whilst the coxswain was on duty aboard the pilot boat, a message was intercepted from Morecambe Bay Lightvessel to Seaforth Radio that a small yacht bound for Fleetwood...
Velma
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 1.15 in the early morning of the 14th of July, 1952, the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in response to a call from the Gorton Lightvessel, received through the...
Tango
Walmer, Kent. At 4.51 on the after- noon of the 13th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the master of the East Goodwin lightvessel had reported a motor yacht burning red flares about half a mile east of the...
Suantrai
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 11.53 on the morning of the 13th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with three people on board was being carried across Kilbrannon Sound. At 12.8 the life-boat City...
Benimora
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At ten o'clock on the night of the 7th of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was overdue on passage from Milford Haven to Fishguard and that a woman had reported...
Acis
Ramsgate, Kent. At 2.34 on the afternoon of the 27th of February, 1960, the east pier watchman told the honor- ary secretary that a small yacht was in difficulties three and a half miles off Dumpton Gap. At 2.45 the life-boat Michael and...
Ranger
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. —- At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1956, immediately after the life- boat had returned from a previous service, a message was received from the Southend (Argyll) coastguard that a small...
Rosalind
TOW FOR MOTOR CRUISER IN FULL GALE Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 25th August, 1962, the harbour constable told the motor mechanic that a yacht was broached to four and a half miles east-north-east of...
Robbe
SICK MAN LANDED FROM YACHT St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 11.20 on the night of Thursday the 8th of August, 1963, the Area Commissioner of the St.
John Ambulance Brigade asked the life-boat to take a sick man off the yacht...