LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Rowing Boats
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 3.50 on the 1st of November, 1953, the coxswain reported that two rowing boats with one person in each were in difficulties in Swansea Bay, and that two men who had put off to help them in another boat had...
Two Fishing Boats
PORT PATRICK.—On the afternoon of the 19th June two fishing-boats proceeded to the North fishing ground. One of them was fully manned, but the other had been hired by two visitors, and her crew consisted of a man and a boy. Towards evening a...
Tyrronall
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 7.40 on the evening of the 3rd of November, 1955, the skipper of a fishing boat in Arklow dock reported that he had heard on his boat's wireless the motor vessel Tyrronall reporting that her steering gear had...
Melissa, of Aldeburgh
RUSSIAN ENCOUNTER News was received at Walnier, Kent, on 7th August, 1971, that an unknown number of survivors from a yacht had been placed on board the East Goodwin lightvessel after having been rescued by a Russian warship flotilla...
La Voyageuse
Torbay, Devon - At 3.33 p.m. on 28th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a motor cruiser had gone aground on the rocks south of Mansands. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings at 6.45 to...
A British Warwick Aeroplane
APRIL 17TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
Early in the morning a crash was heard by the coastguard, but the weather was foggy and he could see nothing. He made enquiries but learnt nothing. At 9.33 the life-boat honorary secretary...
Ianthe
At 8.30 P.M. on the 7th February it was reported that a vessel was making signals of distress by burning flares, about one mile E.N.E. of Clovelly. As a strong N.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea the Life-boat Elinor Roget proceeded to...
Gentle Annie
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 6.45 on the morning of the 2nd of June, 1956, the honorary secretary's son reported that the yacht Gentle Annie, of West Kirby, was flying distress signals in a danger- ous position off the north end of East Hoyle...
Vine
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—On the 6th of February, 1957, the motor fishing vessel Vine, of Aberdeen, while return- ing from the fishing grounds to Camp- beltown harbour with a crew of three, struck a reef on the north end of Davaar Island. An...
A Yacht, Rubber Dinghy and a Tug
CRIES FOR HELP Falmouth, Cornwall. At 9.21 p.m.
on iyth September, 1965, the coastguard told the coxswain that cries for help had been heard in the water off the Prince of Wales pier. There was a gale from the...