LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cietrzew
Stronsay, Orkneys.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 3rd of May, 1955, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the Polish trawler Cietrzew had wire- lessed that she was in great danger and needed help 140 miles east of...
A Motor Boat (2)
Plymouth, Devon.—At 10.50 on the night of the 27th of June, 1955, the Longroom signal station telephoned that a motor boat needed help outside the breakwater. At 11.10 the life- boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out, with the honorary...
None (2)
Walmer, Kent.—At 12.26 early on the morning of the 4th of July, 1955, the Deal coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen close inshore north of Deal. At 1.18 the life-boat Thomas lUarkby, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Progress
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 9.45 on the evening of the 13th of May, 1956, the police reported that several red flares had been seen in the Wyre Channel, and at ten o'clock the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson, on temporary duty at the...
Invictor
Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 23rd of June, 1956, a shipping agent telephoned to say that the fishing boat Invictor, of Folkestone, was disabled with a broken shaft three- quarters of a mile south-east of the life-boat...
A Yacht (1)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties off the Little Orme. Shortly afterwards the yacht...
A Dinghy (2)
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat appeared to be in difficulties and drift- ing off Porthdinllaen Point. The life- boat...
None (5)
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 8.47 on the evening of the 29th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a sixteen-month-old child had fallen over the cliff at Ballyrae. At 8.55 the life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No....
None (12)
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 3.22 on the afternoon of the 16th August, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a girl who had been bathing off Inverallochy sands had been swept out to sea and was in difficulties.
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None (21)
Galway Bay. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 29th September, 1961, the local doctor asked for the life-boat to take him to Inishmaan to attend a very sick child. The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, left her...