LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Primula
Great Yarmouth and Gorlestcn, Norfolk.—At 2.48 on the morning of the 19th of October, 1955, the Gorles- ton coastguard rang up to say that a drifter had gone aground one hundred yards north of the harbour entrance, and that she was burning...
Fulmar
Stronsay, Orkneys.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of December, 1955, a report was received that the local lobster boat Fulmar was at anchor in Huip Sound but that she was in danger of sinking, as there was a very rough sea...
Centaurus
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.31 on the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1956, the Deal coastguard reported that the Liberian steamer Centaurus had been in collision with an unknown tanker some eighteen miles east-by-south from Ramsgate. The life-boat...
Loddon
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...
Erin
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 10.10 on the night of the 17th of August, 1956, a message was received that the motor boat Erin was overdue from a fishing expedition. The life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched at...
Luffness
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...
Pentland Swell
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 6.23 on the morning of the 27th of March, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishjng vessel had been seen approaching Wick from the south- east, although the harbour had been closed to shipping...
Tom Pepper
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...
The Motor Yawl Ivy Lass
Walmer, Kent. At 7.52 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor yawl Ivy Lass of Maldon was secured alongside the East Goodwin lightvessel, as she had run short of petrol....
Petite Marie-Claude
Plymouth, Devon. At 9.54 on the morning of the 28th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Rame Head informed the honorary secretary that the French trawler Petite Marie-Claude had an engine failure off Looe Bay three and a half miles...