LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Sabac
Runswick, Yorkshire.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 19th of May, 1953, the Staithes coastguard rang up to say that a vessel had gone aground on Kettleness Point in thick fog, and at 2.15 the life-boat Robert Patton—The Always Ready was...
The Sailing Catamaran Santa Maria
Walmer, Kent. At 3.15 on the after- noon of the 25th of April, 1959, the coxswain was informed that a catamaran with three people on board had capsized. He saw the casualty about four hundred yards off the life-boat house, and at 3.30 the...
Volare
Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.40 on the evening of the 20th of June, 1959, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht had been seen drifting on the ebb tide past Broughty Ferry. Her crew of three were waving a white towel or...
Useful
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 9.25 on the evening of the 2nd of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel six miles south-west-by-south of Shoreham was making distress signals. At 9.35 the life-boat Rosa...
Acis
Ramsgate, Kent. At 2.34 on the afternoon of the 27th of February, 1960, the east pier watchman told the honor- ary secretary that a small yacht was in difficulties three and a half miles off Dumpton Gap. At 2.45 the life-boat Michael and...
A Dinghy
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 6th of October, 1956, a resident of Roa Island reported that a sixteen-feet dinghy had capsized in Walney Channel. At 2.30 the life- boat Herbert Leigh was launched. The sea was choppy,...
Marie Suzanne
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 3.36 on the afternoon of the 16th of February, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the engine-room of the Belgian trawler Marie Suzanne was on fire nine miles south-east of Clyth Ness. At four o'clock the...
A Dinghy (1)
Runswick, Yorkshire.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1957, the honorary secretary received a tele- phone message that two men were being blown out to sea in a small dinghy. At 3.50 the life-boat The Elliott Gill was launched in...
Spontaneity
Whltby, Yorkshire.—At 11.15 on the night of the 16th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say the motor vessel Spontaneity, on passage to Yarmouth, had reported that one of her crew was sick. She was ex- pected to arrive off Whitby in...
Rani IV
Poole, Dorset.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 27th of September, 1957, a message was received that the cabin cruiser Rani IV, with a woman and three boys on board, was overdue from a trip in the harbour. After further enquiries...