LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Good Cheer
Scaiborough, Yorkshire.—At 6.44 in the evening of the 5th of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that flares could be seen one mile north by east of Burniston, and the motor life- boat Herbert Joy II was lauriched at 6.55. The...
Dolphin
Margate, Kent.—At 1.5 in the after- noon of the 5th of June, 1949, the coastguard telephoned information re- ceived from Herne Bay that a motoryacht was ashore on the Hook Sand- bank flying a distress signal, and the life-boat Lord...
Phrontis
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1954, the police reported that a member of the crew of the local steam trawler Phrontis. which had left for a fishing trip, was ill and that she was returning to Fleetwood....
The Dailing Dinghy Imp and a Canoe
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 13th of August, 1954, the police reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Meols. At 2.49 the life-boat Oldham IV was launched.
The sea was rough, a moderate westerly...
Island Commodore
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1954, the motor vessel Island Commo- dore, of London, bound for Cherbourg with thirty-seven people on board, wire- lessed the life-boat station that her steering...
Scaup
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1954, the Sheerness police reported that a yacht was in distress off Minster. At 3.30 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched. The sea was very...
The S.S. Pompey Power
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 5.14 on the evening of the 18th of De- cember, 1955, the coastguard tele- phoned that a wireless message had been received from the S.S. Pompey Power, of Portsmouth, that she had a very sick man on board who...
Cruiser and Crete Avon
Penlee, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 9.40 on the night of the 1st of March, 1956, the St. Just coastguard rang up the Penlee life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Crete Avon, of London, a vessel of 4,100 tons, had been in tow of the...
St. Gowan Lightvessel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 11.35 on the morning of the 22nd of March, 1956, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Swansea asked if the life- boat would land a sick man from the St. Gowan lightvessel. At 11.50 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown...
Cestrian Maid
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 11.40 on the morning of the 5th of June, 1956, it was reported that the crew of two of the yacht Cestrian Maid, of Liverpool, were signalling for help off Gallows Point. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts,...