LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Crest
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At half past eight in the evening, on the 19th of May, 1950, a telephone call from Port Skerra reported a fishing boat flying distress signals. At 8.45 the life-boat H.C.J. was launched in a rough sea with a strong...
A Boat
MONTROSE.—On the 30th September, a boat containing three pilots put off from this place to a Norwegian barque, and one of the men was placed on board the vessel.
The boat then returned towards the shore, but the wind having...
Flevo
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 5.32 on the morning of the 8th of February, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Flevo of Groningen had run aground near Laver Point east of St. Ives Bay. The life- boat Edgar,...
A Dinghy (3)
Mcelfre, Anglesey.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 14th of August, 1957, a dinghy three miles north-east of Moryn Point, Dulas, was seen drifting out to sea. Five minutes later the life-boat Watkin Williams was launch- ed. There was a rough...
Yvone et Marie
A French fishing vessel, the Yvonne et Marie, of Camaret, carrying a crew of five, ran aground in New Grimsby Channel, west of Rag Ledge, at about 7.10 P.M. on the 12th April. The Coastguard told the Life-boat Autho- rities, but as the...
White Heather
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 5.40 on the evening of the 15th of October, 1957, the Saltburn coastguard telephoned that the salvage vessel White Heather needed help near the old wreck of the Demetrius off Redcar. At 6.10 the fife-boat City of Leeds...
Libera
Poolbeg, Co. Dublin.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 28th of August, 1954, the Dublin Port and Docks Board telephoned to say the Poolbeg light- house-keeper had reported that two men in a small yacht near North Bull lighthouse were...
Pioneer
KESSINGIASTB. — At 4 P.M., on the 7th February, signals of distress were observed.
from the fishing smack Pioneer, of Lowestoft, which had stranded in J?akefieM Gat.
The So. 1 Life-boat, the Botton, was...
River Spey
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 6.10 on the morning of the 28th of February, 1954, the Valentia radio station reported that the trawler River Spey, of Milford Haven, which had a crew of twelve, was leaking badly and needed help fifteen miles...
Tina
Selsey, Sussex.—At 8.50 on the even- ing of the 24th of September, 1957, a message was received that the yacht Tina, with a crew of four, had engine trouble three and a half miles south- south-west of Littlehampton. The life-boat Canadian...