LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ros Bremore
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 3.32 p.m.
on I4th January, 1966, a distress signal from the motor fishing vessel Ros Bremore was heard by the life-boat H. F. Bailey, which was on temporary duty at station, on her radio transmitter...
Sway
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.57 on the night of the 6th of November, 1952, the life-boat E.M.E.D. left Har- wich for her station, after towing in the motor fishing vessel Binny Stewart.
But shortly afterwards, at 12.22,...
New Members of Committee of Management
Major Bertram Bell, Mr. Raymond Cory, Mr. John Russell, and Mr. Nigel Varrington Smyth, O.B.E., have been co-opted members of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
Major Bell, who lives in Fota Island (Co. Cork),...
Category: Committee
Sea Fury
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of April.
1955. the life-boat coxswain reported that he had seen a yacht in Hilbre Swash and thought she would be in a dangerous position if the weather...
Reggio
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 9.30 on the night of the 6th of November, 1955, the Wick coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Reggio, of Grimsby, had gone ashore five miles west of Dunnet Head. She was bumping badly and needed help....
Fishing Boats
Cromer, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 6th of February, 1950, after the local boats had left for the fishing grounds sixteen miles south-east of Cromer, there were indications of a north-easterly gale approaching. It was decided, therefore,...
Lewes Castle
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — At 8.44 on the evening of the 24th of August, 1950, the coastguard reported a vessel firing distress signals in Spitway. The sea was rough and a moderate breeze was blowing from the south-south-west, when at 8.56 the...
None
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 20 th of July, 1956, the Chief Constable of Kirkwall re- ported that a German student had been landed by motor boat on the Island of Switha to study bird life two days earlier. It was known...
Kayak
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 2.36 on the morning of the 7th of July, 1957, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen near Ventnor pier. He added that some local boats had gone out to a yacht and there appeared to be no...
Lady Alicia
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of June, 1958, a man who had been watching a cabin cruiser rolling appar- ently out of control one mile south-west of Birnbeck Island told the police that red...