LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Valerie and the House-Boat Miranda
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 7.30 on the evening of the 3rd of July, 1957, the honorary secretary and coxswain saw the fishing boat Valerie in difficulties off Skegness. The Valerie was towing the house-boat Miranda. The life- boat The Cuttle...
An Inflated Rubber Mattress
Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 10.55 on the morning of the 3rd of August, 1957, the police reported that a boy was adrift on an inflated rubber mattress off Towyn. At 11.15 the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched in a slight sea. There was...
Beach Belle (1)
Dover, Kent.—At 1.21 on the after- noon of the 15th of December, 1957, the Sandgate coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat needed help one mile south-west of Dover. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 1.35 in a...
Gypsy King
Walmer, Kent. At 10.30 on the morning of the 13th of January, 1958, the Deal coastguard told the coxswain that a motor boat had broken down with engine trouble a quarter of a mile south of South Brake buoy. The life- boat Charles Dibdin...
Peveril
FEBRUARY 10TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 3.30 P.M. a fisherman returned to port and reported to the harbour master that the motor fishing boat Peveril, of Douglas, with a crew of three, was still at sea. As half a gale of wind was blowing...
Benguela
SEPTEMBER 30TH. - WHITEHILLS , BANFFSHIRE. At 2.35 P.M. the coastguard reported that a small motor cargo vessel one mile N. by E. of Sandend had stopped and was firing coloured rockets. A light southerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea...
Ann
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 24th March the schooner Ann, of Colchester, was seen about 6 A.M. making for Hartlepool, apparently in distress. When she was within about 2 miles of the harbour the No. 3 Life-boat John Clay Barlow put off to her, and...
The S.S. Red Rose
PALLING, NORFOLK.—On the morning of the 18th July, during a thick fog, the s.s. Red Rose, of Cardiff, grounded on the Hasborough Sand. Some yawls went to her assistance, but finding that these boats did not return, and that the vessel still...
Paola
PALLING, NORFOLK.—During a fresh breeze from the N.W. on the 3rd November, a steamer was observed on the Hasborough Sands showing signals of distress. The British Workman Life-boat was launched at 9 A.M. and proceeded to the vessel, which...
Fishing Cobles
WHITBY.—At about 10 A.M., on the 28th of January, five fishing cobles, which had left the harbour about six hours previously, were observed to be returning, the sea having risen considerably. As crossing the bar was, under the circumstances,...