LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jubilee
Early on the morning of the 6th June the small yacht Jubilee, of Fleetwood, with two men on board, sent up distress signals. She was in broken water about one and a half miles south of the life-boat station, and was dragging her anchor about...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 19th of December, 1954, a message was received from Mizen Head asking if the life-boat would take a relief keeper and stores to the Inish- tearaght Rock lighthouse. At eleven o'clock...
Champion
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 10.26 on the night of the 25th of January, 1956, a message was received from the East Pier watchhouse that red flares had been seen off Broadstairs. At 10.30 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out. The sea was slight...
Amazone
Valentla, Co. Kerry.—About 10.45 in the morning of the 2nd of May, 1952, the trawler Amazone, of Camaret, with a crew of nine, left the harbour, but broke down and was in danger of being blown on the rocks at the harbour entrance. The sea...
Southern Sun
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 9.40 on the night of the 29th of June, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that a vessel had broken down and was drifting five miles north-east of Ailsa Craig. The life-boat Frank and William Oates was launched...
Fishing Boats (1)
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 5.7 on the evening of the 9th of February, 1953, the Carnoustie coastguard telephoned that the Arbroath coastguard had asked if the life-boat would escort four Arbroath fishing boats into...
New Member of Committee of Management
DR. E. A. PASK, O.B.E., has been coopted to the Committee of Management of the Institution. Dr. Pask, who was educated at Rydal School and Cambridge and studied at the London Hospital, is now Professor of Anaesthetics in the University of...
Category: Committee
A Motor Launch
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.-—At 7.10 on the evening of the 13th of July, 1957, the honorary secretary received a message from the assistant harbour master that a boat needed help off the east pier. The life-boat Dunleanj II put out at 7.45...
Boy George
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 2.54 on the afternoon of the 14th of September.
1957, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was flying a distress signal about a mile and a half south-east of Southwold harbour. The life-boat...
Naoim Cait
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 5.40 on the morning of the 25th of June, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message from Valentia radio that the fishing vessel Naoim Cait required help north- west of Tearaght lighthouse. At six o'clock the...