LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pamela (1)
St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At 9.55 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1958, the coxswain told the honorary secretary he had received a message thatthe fishing boat Pamela of Grimsby had left Tresco at 7.30 for St. Martin's but...
Venture and Kestrel
Dunbar, East Lothian. At four o'clock on the morning of the 30th of March, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had reported two small boats overdue which were on passage from Aberdeen to Port Seton. One...
A Fishing Boat
Dover, Kent. At 2.55 on the after- noon of the 18th of July, 1959, a fishing boat was seen in difficulties near the wreck buoy south of the eastern en- trance to Dover harbour. The life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings five minutes...
Dundalk
Clogher Head, Co. Louth. At 10.30 on the morning of the 14th of August.
1959, the honorary secretary received a message from the offices of a shipping company that the motor vessel Dun- dalk, belonging to the company, had...
Fishing Boats (1)
Wbitby, Yorkshire. At 11.30 on the morning of the 9th of March, 1960, the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth, after completing an engine trial, went to meet four local fishing vessels, which were returning to harbour in a strong east-south-easterly...
Courage, Pilot Me,Brilliant Star, Lead Us, Provider, Success II,Faith Star
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 16th of February, 1955, the weather worsened while fishing boats were at sea, and at 11.5 the life- boat E.C.J.R. was launched to escort them in. The sea was heavy, a moder- ate north-easterly...
An R.A.F. Airborne Life-Boat
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1955, the Trevose Head coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from St. Eval that an R.A.F. airborne life-boat was in diffi- culties off Bude. An...
Roger Bushell
Torbay, Devon.—At noon on the 6th of October, 1955, a local trawler company reported that their trawler Roger Bushell, of Brixham, which had a crew of eight, had lost her propeller and was drifting ten miles east-north-east of Berry Head. At...
Kathleen Ann
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 22nd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a longshore boat, Kath- leen Ann, had anchored about fifty v^.rds from the shore opposite the coastguard look-out....
A Yacht
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.48 on the morning of the 12th of March, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a small yacht had capsized half-a-mile east of Britannia pier at Great Yar- mouth. A moderate...