LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nirvana
Dover, Kent.-—At about 1.40 P.M. on the 5th June, 1938, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a yacht had been dismasted half a mile S.S.W. of the Admiralty Pier. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Sir William...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Newbiggin, Northumberland.—On the morning of the 3rd February the coastguard telephoned that conditions at sea were very bad, and that all the local cobles, thirteen in number, were out. A strong N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a very rough...
Falcon
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 7th of June, 1956, a report was received that a fishing vessel had broken down off Crosskirk, near Brimness. At 10.50 the life-boat Dunnet Head, Civil Service No. 31 was launched in a...
Provider A
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 3rd of September, 1952, the coxswain received a wireless mes- sage from the local fishing boat Pro- vider A that her engine had broken down and that she would need help to enter the harbour. At...
A Catamaran
Selsey, Sussex. At 5.31 on the even- ing of the 14th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a catamaran had capsized a quarter of a mile south of Selsey Bill.
The life-boat Canadian Pacific...
H.M.S. Cygnet
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 12.20 in the morning of the 7th of February. 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that H.M.S. Cygnet, bound from the Arctic to Sheerness, was approaching and wished to land a sick man...
A Dinghy
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1958, the police informed the coxswain that a man was clinging to an upturned dinghy five hundred yards from the shore and two miles north of Skegness pier. The life-boat...
A Boat (1)
Troon, Ayrshire. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 9th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties three miles south-east of Brodick pier. The life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out...
None (3)
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 7.45 on the night of the 6th of January, 1950, a local doctor telephoned for the life-boat to take a woman who had met with a serious accident to Kirkwall, for hos- pital treatment. As no other boat was available the...
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 5.15 in the evening, on the 13th of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that three menin a rubber dinghy were drifting sea- wards off Ty-Croes. At 5.25 the life- boat A.E.D. was launched in a calm sea with a light...