LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Wave
HERRING DRIFTER BREAKS AWAY FROM TUG Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 8.50 on the evening of the 10th November, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a tug towing the Scottish herring drifter Silver Wave, which had a crew of eight,...
The Bar Lightvessel
DEAD MAN REMOVED FROM LIGHTVESSEL New Brighton, Cheshire. At approximately 9.35 on the morning of Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the Marine Department of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board informed the honorary secretary that a member of...
A Whaler
Walmer, Kent.—At 3.55 on the after- noon of the 17th of July, 1954, the Deal coastguard rang up to say that a whaler, with six boys from the Royal Marine School of Music on board, needed help three quarters of a mile south-east of Deal. At 4...
Svenska
Margate, Kent.—At 12.42 on the after- noon of the 24th of July, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht had run ashore on the Hook Sands.
At 12.50 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI was...
Arka
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 11.44 on the morning of the 30th of August, 1954, the Carnoustie coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing boat Arka, of Gydnia, which had a sick man on board, had run aground one and a half miles...
M.F.V. 900
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 23rd of Septem- ber, 1954, the life-boat honorary secre- tary saw a motor fishing vessel driving towards the north breakwater. At 4.20 the life-boat White Star was launched and made...
El Moroco
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 7.45 on the morning of the 5th of November, 1954, a message was received that a motor vessel was drifting towards Trefusis Point, in Falmouth Harbour. At eight o'clock the life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare...
Pilot Me II and the Courage
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 8th of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the Scarborough fishing boat Pilot Me II was bound for Whitby with engine trouble, and that the Scarborough life- boat was with her. At...
Nicolette
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 6th of May, 1955, the St. Anthony coastguard rang up to call attention to the position of a sailing yacht in Falmouth Bay. He later stated that she might need help as the weather was bad. At...
Fulmar
Stronsay, Orkneys.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of December, 1955, a report was received that the local lobster boat Fulmar was at anchor in Huip Sound but that she was in danger of sinking, as there was a very rough sea...