LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Whaler
The Lizard, Cornwall. — At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the police at Mullion that a sailing whaler, with a crew of six from the Royal Naval...
The S.S. Cuban
Troon, Ayrshire.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 16th of January, 1955, the Kildonan coastguard tele- phoned that he had seen a red flare east of Kildonan. At 5.40 the life- boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow put out. The sea...
Kayak
Humber, Yorkshire.—At three o'clock on the morning of the 30th of May, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard rang up to say that a man had reported that the yacht Kayak, of Beverley, had gone ashore between Spurn Point and Kilnsea at one...
None (1)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 12th of December, 1955, a doctor rang up the life-boat station to say that the keeper of St. Helen's Fort at Spithead was seriously ill. He asked if he could he taken to...
Hassel (1)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent.—At 4.13 on the morning of the 3rd of May, 1956, the Lade coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Dungeness to say the motor vessel Hassel, of Bergen, Norway, had been in collision with an unknown vessel...
Eagle
During the evening of the 1st April the life-boat motor mechanic received a telephone message from the police and the coast- guard, reporting that six men were stranded on Burbo Bank. A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea. The...
A Steam Trawler Strathlethen
On the 29th December, 1933, the steam trawler Strathkthen, of Aberdeen, had her steering gear carried away while she was making for the harbour on her return from the fishing grounds. She became unman- ageable, and was thrown by a heavy sea...
Withernsea Monster
The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 1.10 P.M. on the 21st May, as a telephone message had been received from Withernsea coastguard that the motor boat Withernsea Monster had broken down and was drifting, five miles east...
None
On the after- noon of the llth January, a doctor asked for the life-boat to go to Caldy Island to fetch to the mainland a girl who had been badly burnt and was in great pain. It would have been dan- gerous to fetch her in an open boat, and...
Tyrwhitt
— Early on the morning of the 17th March the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station tele- phoned that a vessel was apparently in distress near Fast Castle Point, about four miles up the coast. Her siren could be heard, but owing to the dense...