LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walmer, Kent. At 4.14 on the after- noon of the 12th of July, 1959, the life- boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No.

32) was returning to her station from Dover after being on display at the Royal Show at Oxford, when the...

Cloughey, Co. Down. At 5.5 on the afternoon of the 8th of October, 1959, the police at Portaferry informed the honorary secretary that flares had been seen off Strangford bar. At 5.30 the life-boat Constance Calverley was launched in a...

Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—-At 2.45 in the afternoon of the 10th of April, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was in distress two miles north-by-west of Great Orme Lighthouse, and at 3.36 the life-boat Thomas and Annie...

Swanage, Dorset. — At 2.36 on the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was apparently in distress and fly- ing a signal two and a half miles south- south-east of St. Aldhelm's...

Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 8.50 on the morning of the 28th of May, 1953, a retired fisherman told the life-boat coxswain that he had heard on his wireless set a message from the fishing boat May Lily, of liridlington, which had broken down...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 22nd of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that the trawler Patriot, of Rostock, had asked for a doctor. Tidal conditions were unsuitable for a shoreboat to put out, and at 10.28 the No...

The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 2.54 on the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1953, the coastguard tele- phoned that the tanker Alva Bay, of London, which was .one mile south-east of Mumbles Head, had reported that she had a very sick man on...

Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.34 on the evening of the 17th of December, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler had fired a red flare two miles south-south-east of Newhaven.

At 8.45 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott...