LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Rover
Humber, Yorkshire. At 5.18 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1959, the police at Cleethorpes informed the coxswain superintendent that a bather was in difficulties off Humberstone. At the same time the coastguard reported that a yacht,...
White Rose
Arbroath, and Broughty Ferry, Angus.
At eight o'clock on the morning of the 27th of August, 1959, the fishing boat White Rose of Arbroath, which had engine trouble, drifted on to rocks at West Haven, north of Carnoustie...
White Rose (1)
Arbroath, and Broughty Ferry, Angus.
At eight o'clock on the morning of the 27th of August, 1959, the fishing boat White Rose of Arbroath, which had engine trouble, drifted on to rocks at West Haven, north of Carnoustie...
La Fee des Ondes
Peel, Isle of Man. At 1.10 early on the morning of the 26th of March, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that a French trawler was ashore on Peel Island. At 1.40 the life- boat Helena Harris—Manchester and District XXXI was...
The S.S. Harfry
Caister, Norfolk.—At 12.20 early on the morning of the 30th of May, 1955, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Harfry, of London, had been in collision with another ship be- tween the North Cockle buoy and Middle Caister buoy,...
Anne Agnes
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. — At 10.25 on the night of the 1st of Septem- ber, 1955, the P'ormby coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht needed help three and a half miles west of Lytham pier.
At eleven o'clock...
City of Ghent
Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.27 on the evening of the 15th of November, 1955, the motor vessel City of Ghent, of Dublin, wirelessed that she had run ashore about three miles north-east- by-east of Lizard, but had later re- floated and was...
The War Department Landing Craft L.405
Stromness, Orkneys.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 9th of December, 1955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that a landing barge had run ashore at Ness Beacon. At 7.18 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander...
St. Mary
Ballycotton, Go. Cork.—At 9.30 on the night of the 15th of January, 1956, a man reported that his two sons had put off from Cork Harbour in the local seven-ton fishing boat St. Mary, but that they had not returned. The men had left at five...
Hassel
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...