LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 4.22 on the afternoon of the 13th of January, 1957, the Fairlight coast- guard telephoned that a sailing dinghy needed help four miles south of Bex- hill. At 4.37 the Hastings life-boat M.T.C. was...
Swee
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. — About eight o'clock on the evening of the 13th of April, 1957, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the auxili- ary yacht Swee, of Port St. Mary, was trying to attract the attention of the Langness...
Ystwyth
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 22nd of Septem- ber. 1957, the coastguard passed on a report from the police that two people on board a yacht were in difficulties off the pier and were baling and signal- ling. The...
Pres. Roosevelt
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. On the 26th of April, 1958, the coaster Pres. Roosevelt, of Groningen, was anchored a mile north-west of the life- boat station with engine trouble and was sheltering from the weather. A boat with four...
Rhodesia
During the afternoon of the 3rd December the Coxswain of the Life-boat Docea Chap- man was informed that an attempt was going to be made to save the steam trawler Rhodesia, of Grimsby, which had stranded five miles to the south of Withernsea...
Harriet
On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah Jane Turner was...
None (1)
Appledore, Devon. On the 7th of January, 1959, the Post Office tele- phone engineer in charge asked the honorary secretary for help in bringing three engineers to Lundy Island, as the only telephone line to the island had been out of action...
A Canoe
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd of November, 1959, the police at Holy well told the coxswain that two young men were missing after a canoe had capsized off Greenfields. At 3.10 the life-boat Oldham IV was launched in...
White Cloud
FREED FROM SANDS At 7.40 p.m. on 25th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser ashore on the Hook Sands had fired a red rocket. There was a moderate south-easterly breeze with a choppy sea and a flooding...
Aileena
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 22nd October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties three miles south-west of Orford light. After further enquiries had been made...