LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shamrock
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 11.25 on the night of the 16th of August, 1956, the harbourmaster reported that dis- tress signals had been observed out at sea. The life-boat George and Caroline Ermen was launched at...
Ancotts
St. Ives, Cornwall.—On the 16th of September, 1956, the coastguard tele- phoned that a vessel was ashore at Western Carricks and that two of her crew had been brought ashore by a motor launch. At 12.40 in the after- noon, the life-boat Edgar...
Godrevy
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 7.19 on the evening of the 1st of October, 1956, a telephone message was received that a fishing boat had been seen burning flares west of Point Le Moye. At 7.37 the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put out. There was...
Janice
Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 25th of April, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with her sails blown away was drifting six and a half miles south-by-east of Durlston Head.
The...
Nora
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.51 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1957.
the watchman on the east pier reported that a yacht about two miles from the Quern buoy was signalling for help. She could apparently make no...
Finbar
Baltimore, Co. Cork. On the 6th of April, 1958, the fishing boat Finbar of Skibbereen, on passage from Baltimore to Clonakilty, broke down with engine trouble just outside Baltimore harbour.
She was drifting helplessly...
Carmela
Dungeness, Kent. At ten o'clock on the night of the 22nd of June, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that a small coaster was ashore half a mile north-east of the life-boat station with her engine broken down. The life-boat Mabel...
Patricia
ENGINE FAILED Padstow, Cornwall.—At 3.55 in the afternoon of the llth of May, 1947, information was received from the coastguard at Trevose Head that a small boat off Bude was firing red rockets, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Princess Mary...
Jill
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.55 in the evening of the 9th of June, 1948, news came that a fishing boat was on the revetment near C.7 black buoy, with the tide ebbing, and was in some danger. At 8.10 the No. 2 motor life- boat Edmund and Mary...
A Sailing Boat
Hastings, Sussex.—About 12.40 in the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1949, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a sailing boat from Dungeness, with one man on board, appeared to be at anchor half a mile south by east of Fairlight Cove,...