LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Northman
Aberdeen.—At 8.7 on the night of the 5th of February, 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that a vessel was thought to be ashore two miles south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. At 8.45 he reported that she was sounding her siren...
The S.S. Clewbay, of Belfast
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford—At 11.45 in the morning of the 21st of April, 1948, the steamer lerne, of the Irish Lights Commissioners, wirelessed that a vessel was stranded on the east side of the Blackwatcr Bank. The same message was...
Amenity
Dfracombe, Devon.—-At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 26th of June, 1948, the coastguard telephoned a report from the Bull Point Lighthouse that a vessel appeared to be ashore at Morte Point but that she had made no distress signals. At...
Firefly
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — At 7 o'clock in the morning of the 17th of July, 1948, the Totland coastguard telephoned that the British steamer Royal Sovereign had reported that she had in tow the motor yacht Firefly, of St....
Doris and Colley
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.45 in the afternoon of the 1st of July, 1949, it was reported from the East Pier that a R.A.S.C. launch had broken down and was drifting towards the North Goodwin Lightvessel. The life-boat crew were assembled, but the...
Arawatta
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Just be- fore midnight on the 29th of August, 1949, the coastguard reported flares about three miles to the eastward, and the life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched twenty minutes after midnight. A south-westerly breeze...
The Rowing Boat
Margate, Kent.—At 12.15 on the after- noon of the llth of November, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a smallboat with four men in it was in diffi- culties between one and a half and two miles west of Herne Bay pier.
At...
Carpo
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 28th of November, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that he had heard on his private wireless set a message from a Dutch ship reporting a body seen in the sea nine miles east of...
None (3)
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 9.30 on the night of the 15th of January, 1955, the County Clerk for Sutherland informed the life-boat station that the roads to Skerray and Melvich were blocked by snow and that about a hundred people were...
The Sailing Boat Olive
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 9.30 on the night of the 14th of August, 1955, the police reported that a woman and her two sons, who were on holiday in Falmouth, had put off in the local sailing boat Olive the morning before for a trip in Falmouth...