LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.51 in the afternoon, on the 9th of May, 1950, the coastguard reported a vessel off the harbour blowing for help. At four o'clock the life-boat Michael Stephens put out in a thick fog. The sea was heavy with a...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the evening of the llth of September, 1950, a resi- dent informed the coastguard that a man in Southwold had reported a yacht in need of help, quarter of a mile north of Southwold pier. At 5.34 the coast- guard...

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 7.45 on the night of the 13th of December, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning flares about one and a half miles north-east of the coast- guard station. At 8.0 the life-boat John Russell,...

Lowes toft, Suffolk.—At 6.58 on the evening of the 24th of August, 1957, it was reported that a yacht had cap- sized off Claremont pier. The life- boat Greater London (Civil Service No.

3), on temporary duty at the station,...

Aberdeen. On the morning of the 21st of January, 1958, the steam trawler Luffness, of Granton, went aground at the north pier. She was badly holed and her crew had decided to leave her.

At 10.45 the life-boat Hilton Briggs...

Dover, Kent. At 9.10 on the night of the 26th of May, 1958, the Sandgate coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was drifting without lights a mile and a half south of the coastguard station. At 9.30 the life- boat...

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. On the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1958, the life-boat Rachael and Mary Evans was launched on exercise, and at 1.45 a canoe taking part in a race from Barry Dock to Weston-super-Mare was seen to capsize one...

Blyth, Northumberland. At 8.40 on the evening of the 30th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was dragging her anchor one mile south of the Sow and Pig buoy. At 8.54 the life-boat City of Bradford...