LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

YACHT WITH BROKEN TILLER Fowey, Cornwall.—At 8.30 in the evening of the 20th of July, 1947, the Looe coastguard reported that a yacht was anchored in a very dangerous position between Looe Island and Hannafore Point and that she would break...

ASHORE IN A THICK FOG North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 7.20 on the morning of the 15th of August, 1947, the Seahouses coast- guard reported that a tug was ashore on Bush Rock, and that three women and two boys had been taken off by...

Tees mouth, and Redcar, Yorkshire.— At 6.40 in the evening of the 23rd of May, 1948, the South Gare coastguard reported both to Teesmouth and Redcar that a rowing boat, with three boys on board, was in difficulties near broken water...

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 12.45 in the morning of the 20th of October, 1948, the steam trawler Barry Castle, of Swansea, left Castlebay har- bour, but a quarter of an hour later she ran aground at the entrance. She blew her steam...

Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 1.8 in the morning of the 14th of May, 1949, the coastguard reported that a vessel was believed to be aground on the New- combe Sands. Her signals by lamp could not be read, so the life-boat Michael Stephens was...

Aberdeen. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of June, 1959, the coast- guard reported that a message had been received from the Dutch vessel De Hoop that another Dutch vessel Huiberdina Gijsbertha of Katwijk a/Kee was aground on the north...

Humber, Yorkshire. At 8.17 on the morning of the 30th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a cabin cruiser appeared to have broken down east of Bull Fort but did not seem to be in immediate danger. At 8.50...

Galway Bay. At 10.30 on the morn- ing of the 10th of December, 1959, the local doctor asked the honorary secre- tary if the life-boat could take a patient, who urgently needed hospital treatment, from Inisheer to Rossaveal pier on the...