LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Glencloy
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 23rd of November, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Glencloy of Glasgow, bound for Stornoway, needed help as she had engine trouble. Her position...
Dawn Wind
Selsey, Sussex. At 8.49 on the even- ing of the llth of June, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in distress one mile south-by-west of Selsey Bill. At 8.57 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched, two...
La Bonne Sante
Margate, Kent.—At 10.55 on the morning of the 28th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on Hook sands. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 11.10. The sea was rough, and there was a...
Igonda
Plymouth, South Devon.—At 7.52 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the Rame Head coastguard reported that a yacht was showing distress sig- nals near Penlee Point. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out at 8.15. There was...
Provider A, Success, Lead Us and Pilot Me
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 14th of November, 1956, the skipper of the fishing boat Provider A reported that there were heavy seas on the harbour bar and that his own vessel had had great difficulty in reaching the...
Valiant
Hastings, Sussex.—On the morning of the llth of February, 1957. anxiety was felt for the local fishing boat Valiant, which had not returned, with a crew of two, from the fishing grounds.
At 10.29 the life-boat M.T.C. was...
Peace
Clacton- on- Sea, Essex.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 7th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the crew of a yacht were shouting for help south- west of Buxey Sands. At 6.30 the life-boat //. C. J., on temporary duty at the station...
A Motor Boat (1)
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 5.35 on the evening of the 17th of July, 1957, a telephone message was received that a motor boat needed help in Scotch Bay. She had a crew of five, one of whom was waving a shirt. The life-boat Dunleary II put...
Albatross (1)
Dover, Kent.—At 2.17 on the after- noon of the 13th of August, 1957, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned to say a motor boat was in difficulties alongside the South Goodwin light- vessel. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 2.30 in a...
Zulu
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 23rd of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the harbour master at Laxey had reported a yacht making heavy weather between two and three miles off Laxey...