LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Sweeper
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 12.12 on the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1955, the life-boat honorary secretary noticed that the local fishing boat Sea Sweeper, which had a crew of four, appeared to have broken down about half a mile from...
Success
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—About one o'clock on the afternoon of the 24th of November, 1955, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Success, of Whitby, was about three miles to the north-east and making for Scar- borough, as Whitby...
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North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At seven o'clock on the morning of the 17th of December, 1955, the life-boat coxswain noticed a flashing light on the Inner Fame Island. He knew that two Trinity House men had been painting the...
The Sailing Boat Ranwara
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 3rd of June, 1956the Polruan coastguard reported that a sailing boat moored off Portscatho seemed to be dragging her anchor. As the weather conditions were bad the life-boat Cunard,...
Barracuda
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At eleven o'clock on the night of the 8th of June, 1956, a report was received by the coxswain that two men in a motor yacht anchored in Hoylake were showing lights and calling for help. At 11.32 the life-boat Oldham...
West Wind
Dover, Kent.—At 8.25 on the evening of the 17th of June, 1956, the Sandgatecoastguard rang up to say the auxi- liary yacht West Wind needed help three miles east of South Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 8.45 in...
A Small Sailing Boat
— On the afternoon of the 27th July a strong and squally N. wind suddenly got up, with a rough sea. A small sailing boat, with one man on board, was seen about two and a half miles S.E. of the Gimblet Rock, making very little headway...
The S.S. Archon and The S.S. Treherbert
At 11.17 P.M. on the 6th September the coxswain received a message from the Ramsgate coastguard that two ships had been in collision off N.E. Spit buoy. They were the s.s.
Archon, of Syra, Greece, bound with a cargo of...
Fishing Cobles
Fifteen motor cobles went out fishing at 7 A.M. on the 27th October in fine weather. By 9.30 A.M. a storm was coming up and the sea was growing rough. At 10.5 A.M. conditions were so bad that the pulling and sailing life-boat Hollon the...
A Rowing Boat
On the morning of the 21st October three young men left harbour in a rowing boat.
The weather was squally and the boat soon became unmanageable. The wind strengthened until it was blowing a moderate gale from the...