LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Boats (1)
Padstow, and St. Ires, Cornwall.—At 7.45 in the evening of the 25th of Sept- ember, 1949, the Trevose Head coast- guard telephoned the Padstow life-boat authorities that a rowing boat with a crew of four was trying to get ashore in...
Starshine
Caister, Norfolk.—At two in the afternoon, on the 8th of July, 1950, the life-boat Jose Neville was launched for exercise. On her way back to her station, about an hour later, she saw a yacht in difficulties off the north end of Caister...
Vivetta and a Naval Cutter of H.M.S. Ganges
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.47 on the morning of the 23rd of July, 1950, while racing was in progress, the coastguard transmitted a message re- ceived from the Cork lightvessel. A yacht two to three miles to the north- east, was in...
Island Commodore
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—About nine o'clock on the night of the 25th of August, 1950, the M.V. Island Commo- dore reported that her engine had broken down three miles north-east of Platte Fougere Point, but that she did not need...
Castle Moil
Cromarty.—At 10.0 on the morning of the 12th of February, 1951, the coast- guard telephoned that a fishing boat was aground on the West Riff Sand- bank near Rosemarkie. At 10.17 the life-boat John Russell, on temporary duty at the station,...
Memory
Dungeness, Kent.—At 5.30 in the evening of the 16th of September, 1951, a yacht was seen flying distress signals one mile east of the life-boat station, and the life-boat coxswain and three other men put out at once in a fishing boat. A...
Speedwell
Whitehllls, Banff shire. — At 9.30 in the morning of the 21st of November, 1951, a fishing boat wirelessed that another fishing boat, the Speedwell, of Macduff, was in difficulties twenty miles north-north-west of Whitehills and at 10.5 the...
The S.S. Salerno
Humber, Yorkshire—At about 2.30 A.M. on the 29th August, 1938, a message was received from the Donna Nook coastguard that a vessel five miles S.S.E. was firing rockets. A fresh northerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather...
The International 505 Yacht Rogue
TWO LANDED FROM CAPSIZED RACING YACHT Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 2.50 on the afternoon of Saturday the 24th of August, 1963, the coxswain received a telephone message from a member of the public who had seen a red flare being burnt on board a...
Tanera
HELICOPTER AND BOATS SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 3.25 p.m.
on Saturday the 14th September, 1963, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the ship Collena had reported that the yacht Tanera...