LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1954, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported in difficulties on the Chichester harbour bar. At 11.49 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched. The...

Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 13th of November, 1954, the police reported that a message had been received from the R.S.P.C.A. asking if the life-boat would put out to a heifer which had fallen over a cliff into Dulas...

Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 4th of June, 1955, a man at Kinsale telephoned to say that the motor fishing boat Inis Caol, of Dublin, had left for the fishing grounds the previous day, with a crew of four, but had...

Plymouth, Devon.—At 12.44 early on the morning of the 21st of June, 1955, the Rame Head coastguard telephoned to say the police had reported that a motor boat, in which two youths had put out on a fishing trip from Torpoint, was missing. At...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.30 on the night of the 24th of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was flashing an S O S signal north- west-by-west of the Barrow Deep lightvessel. At 8.58 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...

Kllmore, Co. Wexford.—On the morn- ing of the 10th of February, 1956, a man reported that the trawler Marylis, of Lorient, had run on the rocks in Ballyhealy Bay and that her crew of nine needed help. At 10.35 the life- boat Ann Isabella...

Ramsey, Isle of Man.—On the morning of the 8th of March, 1956, the coast- guard reported that a body had been ?een on the north shore. It was believed to be the body of one of six men who had put off in the rowing boat Albert the night...

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 8.55 on the evening of the 21st of May, 1956, the Barry Island coastguard reported that a dinghy was drifting seaward off Portishead and that the crew were waving. The life-boat Fiji and Charles was launched...