LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Rocquaine
Clovelly, Devon. — At 9.20 in the morning of the 25th of September, 1951, the S.S. Rocquaine, of Guernsey; bound from Newport for Guernsey, signalled that three of her crew had been badly burnt by an explosion in her hold, and asked for the...
Pilot Me II, Success, Progress, Provider A and Lead Us.
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.15 in the morning of the 10th of December, 1951, the coastguard reported that the local Pilot Me II was approaching the harbour. The sea was rough and a strong northerly wind was blowing. At 9.25 the...
Delce
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.26 in the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1952, the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched on exercise in a rough sea with a moderate north-north-west breeze blowing. At three o'clock she was four miles...
A Landing Craft
OUT OF PETROL Padstow, Cornwall.—At 9.55 in the evening of the 29th of March, 1947, the Trevose Head coastguard reported that a vessel was firing rockets two miles to the north-east of him. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing and the...
A Yacht and a Dinghy
YACHT'S CREW TAKE TO DINGHY New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had foundered off Harrison drive and that her crew had taken to a...
Claire Rita
Bonlmer, Northumberland. At 5.8 on the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Claire Rita of Banff was aground off Hauxley Head. At 5.57 the life- boat Clarissa...
A Launch
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 17th of December, 1959. the honorary secretary was in- formed that a launch, which had left Knoydart at eleven o'clock for Mallaig, was an hour and a half overdue. The life-boat E...
Aurelia
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 5th of June, 1954, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the coaster Talacre, which was at anchor in the estuary of the River Dee, had reported that a yacht with two youths on board had...
Elsie
Poole, Dorset.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th of August. 1954, a report was received that three boys in a cabin cruiser in Poole harbour were waving a white sheet. At 4.5 the life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched. The...
A Dinghy
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1954, the police reported that a dinghy, with two children on board, was adrift off the entrance to Beaulieu River.
At 7.28 the life-boat The Lord...