LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mollia
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 8.20 on the morning of the 8th of June, 1958, the Bailey lighthouse keeper telephoned the honorary secretary to say a radio message had been received from Tusker Rock lighthouse that a trawler was adrift...
The South Goodwin Lightvessel
Dover, Kent.—On the 4th of January, 1955, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Harwich asked if the life- boat would land an injured fog-signal driver from the South Goodwin light- vessel, as the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to put...
The Scarweather Lightvessel
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At7.14 on the morning of the 4th of March, 1956, the coastguard reported that a man in the Scarweather lightvessel had collapsed and needed hospital treat- ment. At 7.29 the Superintendent of Trinity House at...
Carraig Airz
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of June, 1956, the coxswain reported that a local lobster boat Carraig Airz was flying a distress signal off the Aran coast.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson...
Shearwater II
RUDDERS JAMMED At. 5.2 a.m. on i8th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had gone onto the rocks at Foreness in a fresh northwesterly breeze and moderate sea. He was keeping the vessel under...
Antira
ANSWERING FLASH At 7 p.m. on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a small yacht had capsized off the mouth of the river Dart in a moderate to rough sea with strong to near gale force southsouth- westerly winds. At 7.15...
Lady Isle
BROKEN FUEL PUMP At 3.57 p.m. on i8th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Lady Isle of Troon had broken her fuel pump seven miles west of Sanda Island. At 4.15 the lifeboat City of Glasgow II...
An Ex-Airborne Life-Boat
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 6.0 in the evening, on the 22nd of July, 1951, the coxswain saw a small yacht making heavy weather on a northerly course and asked the Wal- ton-on-the-Naze coastguard to keep a watch on her. At 6.23 the coast...
The Fishing Trawler May Blossom
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.50 on the evening of the 22nd of July, 1951,, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was burning flares one mile off the Re- doubt. At 8.30 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched accompanied by the local joint...
Fishing Vessels (2)
THREE FISHING VESSELS ESCORTED IN GALE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 10.50 on the morning of the 20th December, 1962, as the weather was rapidly deteriorating, the honorary secretary asked the harbour master how many fishing boats were still at...