LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Valentia, Co. Kerry.—On the 3rd of April, 1954, the Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would land a seriously injured man from the Skellig's Rocks lighthouse, as the Commissioners' tender Valonia had already made...
Duclair
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 11.3 on the morning of the llth of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that distress signals had been fired from a yacht between Worthing and Lancing. The life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis...
Lady Karem
Newhaven, Sussex. At 12.40, early on the morning of the 25th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that a vessel was firing red flares a quarter of a mile off Birling Gap. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at...
The Helwick Lightvessel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 6.40 on the evening of the 21st of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Trinity House depot had asked for the life-boat to be launched to take a sick man off the Helwick light- vessel...
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Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of October, 1960, the local official of the Northern Lighthouse Board asked for the use of the life-boat to bring ashore a sick keeper from the Chickens Rock...
Gloamin N.
Caister, Norfolk. At 6.58 on the morning of the 4th of December, 1960T the coastguard informed the coxswain that distress flares had been seen south of Scroby Elbow buoy. There was a strong south-westerly wind and a very rough sea. The...
Adriana Johanna
Walmer, Kent. At 2.18 early on the morning of the 27th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen approximately one mile north-north- west of the East Goodwin lightvessel.
Georges Ferges
Lowestoft, Suffolk. During the even- ing of the 6th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary learnt that the traw- ler Georges Ferges of Boulogne would be off Lowestoft at four o'clock the next morning and that medical assistance was...
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Stromness, Orkneys. At 12.22 on the afternoon of the 23rd May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the body of a lighthouse keeper, who had been missing for over a week from Sule-Skerry, had been found south of Dunas...
A Catamaran
Selsey, Sussex. At 10.20 on the morn- ing of the 14th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had burnt flares about a mile south-east of Selsey. A strong west- south-westerly wind was blowing, and the sea...