LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About ten o'clock on the morning of the llth of January, 1953, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard telephoned that the Cork lightvessel had reported seeing a steamer two miles south-by-west of the lightvessel....

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—During the evening of the 15th July, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a yacht was ashore on the Buxey Sands, but was not showing any distress signals. A gentle S.E. breezewas blowing, with a slight...

Weymouth, Dorset - At 10.46 p.m.

on ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor cruiser Windy Wyne of Falmouth had asked for assistance as her engine had broken down half a mile north-west...

Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 11.20 on the night of the 26th of January, 1959, a message was received from the trawler agents at Cahirciveen that a Spanish trawler was sinking twenty-five miles south-west of Skelligs Rock. Another vessel was...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 22nd of June, 1957, the inspector of Irish Lights telephoned that a member of the crew of the Blackwater light- vessel was injured and needed medical treatment...

MORE LOBSTER FISHERS IN DISTRESS Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At about 1.15 in the afternoon of the 21st of August, 1947, the civic guard reported that the salmon yawl Morning Star, of Helvick, which had been lobster fishing, was in...

Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — About 9.0 in the morning, on the 10th of April, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing boat was in diffi- culties four miles to the south; and at 9.15 the life-boat Jeanie Speirs was launched. The...

H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, deputising for his mother, the late Princes Marina, Duchess of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., named the new Padstow life-boat James and Catherine Macfarlane, a 48-foot 6-inch Oakley, on 19th July,...