LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 7.30 on the night of the 15th of March, 1948, local pilots reported that the reflection of flares could be seen off Creadon Head and at eight o'clock, with Mr. A. Westcott Pitt, the honorary...

Wicklow.—At 5.50 in the afternoon of the 8th of May, 1948, the lightkeeper at Wicklow Head reported that a boy had fallen from the nearby cliffs into the sea, and the motor life-boat Lady Kylsant was launched at 5.59. A light easterly breeze...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 7.46 in the morning of the 29th of March, 1952, the coastguard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Scarcity, of London, that her rudder was not working. She was ten miles north- east-by-east of...

Clovelly, Devon. — At 4.18 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1952, the Hartland Point coastguard tele- phoned that a boy was reported to be cut off by the tide at Shipload Bay, and at 4:30 the life-boat William Cantrell Ashley was...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.20 on the night of the llth of December, 1952, the coastguard reported that two jet aircraft had collided and crashed into the sea at a position four miles north- west, thence twenty miles north-east by north. The...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the evening of the llth of September, 1950, a resi- dent informed the coastguard that a man in Southwold had reported a yacht in need of help, quarter of a mile north of Southwold pier. At 5.34 the coast- guard...

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 7.45 on the night of the 13th of December, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning flares about one and a half miles north-east of the coast- guard station. At 8.0 the life-boat John Russell,...

Lytham, Lancashire.—At 11.10 Oil the night of the 23rd of September, 1956, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the S.S. Bonita, of Stock- holm, had a man on board who had drunk poison and needed immediate medical attention. At...