LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tarbaby
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 7.49 a.m. on 25th August, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that a German ship had reported the auxiliary yacht Tarbaby was in distress fifteen miles north-east of the Sunk...
Jamaica
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 6.50 a.m. on loth November, 1965, the local trawler Jamaica was reported aground on the sandbank off Lowestoft harbour. She had sent out a 'Mayday' call. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick went out at 7.5 in...
A Fishing Boat (2)
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 22nd of December, 1954, a message was received from Passage East that a small fishing boat was in distress between Duncannon and Broom Head.
At 12.38 the...
Lady Luck
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 4.15 on the morning of the 24th of February, 1955, the police rang up to say that the 16-feet outboard motor boat Lady Luck, of Morecambe, which had put out with two men on board, was overdue.
At 5...
N.N.III
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.5. on the afternoon of the llth of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two red rockets had been reported in Norman's Bay, and that a boat was burning red flares about four miles...
Fungfrau
DRIFTING NEAR ROCKS Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 7.7 p.m.
on i6th May, 1964, the Orlock Head coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen half a mile east of South Briggs buoy. Seven minutes later the...
A Yawl
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 9.53 a.m.
on loth January, 1965, the police informed the honorary secretary that a yawl approximately half a mile off North Berwick Point had capsized and seemed to have disappeared. At 10.8 the...
A Whaler from H.M.S. Bulwark
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — At 2.55 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a naval whaler was in difficulties one mile north-cast of Strumble Head.
The life-boat Howard Marryat was launched...
Frances Fladgate
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 9.5 on the morning of the 23rd of February, 1958, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a man was very ill on board the collier Frances Fladgate. The vessel was mak- ing for...
Annie Alice
AUG. 9TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.
Shortly before six in the evening information was received through the coastguard that the sailing yacht Annie Alice, of Port Erin, had been making signals for help about seven miles to the...