LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Firefly Aeroplane
Cromarty, Whitehills, and Buckle, Banffshire.—About 1.30 in the after- noon of the 4th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Guiding Star returned to Whitehills with wreckage of a Firefly aeroplane which she reported had crashed about three and a...
Sandefjord
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 9.43 on the night of the 30th of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a tanker had gone aground near the North Goodwin Buoy, and at 9.49 the life- boat Prudential left her moorings.
The sea was...
Loch Lomond
North Pier L.S.A., Torry L.S.A. and the Aberdeen life-boat.—At 10.33 on the morning of the 23rd of October, 1952, the Assistant Harbour Master reported that the steam trawler Loch Lomond, of Aberdeen, was in distress in the Navigation...
Vigilant
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 15th of March, 1953, the motor fishing boat Vigilant, which had been blown ashore from her moor- ings in a gale, was refloated and towed into the River Tees by two men in a small dinghy...
The S.S. Sir James
Girvan, and Troon, Ayrshire.—At 6.48 on the evening of the 5th of May, 1954, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned the Girvan life-boat station that the S.S. Sir James, of Cardiff, was drifting ashore between Heads of Ayr and Turnberry...
A Memorial at Clacton-On-Sea
ON the 14th of November, 1948, a memorial plaque to Second-Coxswain Frank Castle, of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat, was unveiled in the boat- house.
The plaque is inscribed with these words: " In memory of Frank Castle,...
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Wardour
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—On the morn- ing of the 24th of August, 1949, the tide and weather being suitable, the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was beached at seven o'clock for cleaning and paintingher bottom. At 9.40 the Kilchoman...
Cumbria
EXHAUSTED MEN RESCUED FROM PILOT BOAT Kirkcudbright. At 10.15 on the morning of the 21st June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a pilot boat returning to Workington from Girvan after an overhaul was long overdue and...
Bostonian VII
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 12th of August, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a red flare had been seen four and a half miles south-east-by-east of Shoreham Harbour. At 9.30 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and-Phyllis...
Irma Alice
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 26th of September, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the Humber radio station that the trawler Irma Alice,...