LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.10 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1954, the coastguard reported that two men in a rowing boat two miles east of the pier were waving a white rag on an oar. At 11.23 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Raring was...
Howard
Peterhead, Aberdeenshlre.—At 6.35 on the evening of the 29th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Howard, of Hull, had wirelessed that she had a very sick man on board and had asked if the life-boat would take...
Dolphin
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At 7.58 on the evening of the 26th of July, 1955, the coxswain was told that a cabin cruiser was close under Porth- dinllaen Point, and that her crew were waving frantically. Twelve minutes later the...
Bonne Sante
Walmer, Kent.—At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 1st of September, 1955, the Deal coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the East Goodwin lightvessel that a yacht needed help about two miles west-by- south of the...
Favonian
Peel, Isle of Man.—At 3.46 on the afternoon of the 8th of December, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Favonian, of Belfast, which had a crew of four, was burning a flare a quarter of a mile north of Peel breakwater....
Moana
Plymouth, South Devon.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 17th of June, 1956, the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out from her ] moorings on an exercise in a smooth sea. A fresh north-north-westerly breeze was blowing, and...
The S.S. Moveria
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—At 1.5 in the morning of the llth of May, 1952, the S.S. Moveria, of Glasgow, wirelessed that she had broken down nineteen miles south-west of Mizen Head and needed tugs to take her to harbour.
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The 26-feet Auxiliary Yawl Shona
Lytham St. Annes.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 22nd of June, 1952, a resident telephoned that a yacht was aground on the south side of the Riddle Estuary. It could be seen that she was dried out close up to the South Training...
The S.S. Markab N. and a Norwegian Tanker
Dover, Kent.—At 8.47 on the even- ing of the 24th of April, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the North Foreland radio station through the Dungeness pilot cutter that the S.S. Markab N., of...
Pandora
Wicklow.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of July, 1953, the life-boat Lady Kylsant was launched in a choppy sea, with a moderate north- westerly breeze blowing. She was due to attend a life-boat flag day at Grey- stones, but six miles...