LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Irish Leader
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 10.40 on the night of the 9th of July, 1953, the head lightkeeper at the Power Head fog station rang up to say that he had seen a motor fishing boat burn flares half a mile east of Power Head. At 10.45 the life-boat...
None (5)
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 6.15 onthe evening of the 29th of March, 1954, the Orlock Head coastguard rang up to say that a keeper in the Maidens lighthouse was ill. He asked if the life-boat would take a relief man to it and land the patient...
Golden Spray
Dungeness, Kent.—At half past five in the evening, on the 18th of July, 1950, the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson put to sea in a strong south- westerly wind with a choppy sea. She was going to help a fishing vessel, which the coxswain...
Questa
Margate, Kent.—At 7.39 on the evening of the 5th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a cabin cruiser was ashore about half a mile north of South Margate Buoy. At 7.50 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI, was...
Loadstar
DRIFTING WITH FOULED PROPELLER Moelfre, Anglesey.—At midnight on the 7th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported flares, and the motor life-boat G.W. was launched at 12.15 on the morning of the 8th in a strong north- north-west wind with a...
A Rowing Boat (1)
COCKLE-GATHERERS IN PERIL Beaumaris, Anglesey.—Early in the morning of the 22nd of September, 1947, two men put out in a rowing boat to gather cockles, but a strong south- west wind blew up and at one o'clock in the afternoon the men...
Village Maid
DRIFTING FOR TWENTY-SIX HOURS Cromarty.—At 1 o'clock in the after- noon of the 22nd of January, 1948, the coastguard telephoned a report from the keeper of the Tarbert Ness Light- house that a fishing vessel was making distress signals...
Westover
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 10.10 on the night of the 22nd of August, 1948, the shore attendant at East Pier reported flares from a vessel near No. 3 Brake Buoy, and the coastguard reported a vessel aground north of South Goodwin Lightvessel, which...
An Ex-Landing Barge
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 11.28 in the morning of the 19th of March, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel two miles south-east of the North Goodwin Lightvessel, was drifting south, apparently with no crew, and the life-boat Prudential was...
Falcon
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 8.30 in the morning of the 3rd of August, 1949, the yacht Falcon broke from her moorings in Piel Harbour. A north-westerly gale and the ebbing tide carried her away to sea. It was not known if anyone was on board, and...