LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Normandie
At 4.35 A.M. on the 4th January a telephone message was received from the South- end coastguard that the trawler Nor- mandie had reported a vessel firing rockets one or two miles north of the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse, where very...
Squib II
At 3.40 P.M.
on the 19th May a telephone message was received at the pierhead from Canvey "Island that the small yacht Squib II, of Westcliff, had capsized about half a mile from the shore. Her crew of two were...
Richland,
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— At about 5 P.M. on the 5th December the steam tug Royal Britain, with the lighter Richland, of Newcastle, in tow, was seen making for harbour. A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The tow...
Flirt
Margate, Kent.—At 1.6 early on the morning of the 20th of July, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was overdue. At 1.18 the life- boat North Foreland (Civil Service No.
IT) was launched in a heavy sea, with...
None
Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 12th of February, 1957, an urgent call was received from a doctor that there were two very sick women on Tory Island. At 12.30 the life-boat W. M. Tilson put out in a heavy swell. The...
Mary (1)
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—On the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1957, the coxswain saw a small fishing boat drifting out to sea about three miles east of Rosslare harbour. At 3.5 the life-boat Douglas Hyde put out in a choppy sea. There...
Trade Winds
Weston - super - Mare, Somerset. — Shortly after eight o'clock on the even- ing of the 13th of August, 1957, the pier master noticed that a yacht was in difficulties off Sand Point. Fifteen minutes later the yacht flashed S.O.S.,...
A Cabin Sloop
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.50 on the morning of the 18th of September, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was dismasted two miles south- west of the Royal Sovereign lightvessel.
Ten minutes later the...
Daffrobani
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.— At 11.56 on the morning of Sunday, the 1st of October, 1950, the life-boatWilliam Gammon, Manchester and Dis- trict XXX was at sea for adjustments to her wireless equipment when the coastguard announced that a...
Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The local fishing boat Success, which had been out fishing all night, enquired by wireless at nine in the morning of the 20th cf May, 1948, what the condition was at the "harbour mouth. She was told that if she came...