LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dot
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 1st of May, 1955, the life-boat coxswain noticed that a racing yacht appeared to be in diffi- culties in Friar's Bay and was making heavy weather. He kept her under observation, and at...
Yacht Winifred
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.54 on the afternoon of the 10th of May, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a barge had broken down off the harbour and that her steering gear had been carried away. At two o'clock the life-boat Rosa...
Eventide
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— On the morning of the 15th of October, 1955, the weather worsened while several fishing boats were still at sea.
By ten o'clock all of them had returned to harbour except the local...
Thracian
Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk.—At 6.45 on the evening of the 12th of December, 1955, several men on the beach saw red flares in the direction of North Scroby Sand. Ten minutes later the life-boat Jose Neville was launched. The sea was rough, there...
St. Gowan Lightvessel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 11.35 on the morning of the 22nd of March, 1956, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Swansea asked if the life- boat would land a sick man from the St. Gowan lightvessel. At 11.50 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown...
Olga
Workington, Cumberland.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th of March, 1956, there was a telephone call reporting that a boat off Parton was in distress and that one of her crew was waving a white flag. At 3.15 the life-boat...
Imperial
Stronsay, Orkneys.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 14th of May. 1956, the master of the S.S. Earl Tkorpin re- ported to the honorary secretary that a Mayday distress signal had been broadcast by Wick radio station. The Kirkwall coastguard...
Lassiette
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the after- noon of the 10th of June, 1956, the honorary secretary saw a yacht in distress three miles south of the life- boat station. At 3.48 the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched in a very...
The S.S. Belfri
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At ten o'clock in the morning of the 29th of June, 1952, a message was received from the agents of the S.S. Belfri, of Oslo, that she was making for Storno- way with a woman aboard who was seriously ill. The...
Yacht Little Genna
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.58 on the afternoon of the 31st of August, 1952, a message was received from the Palace Pier, Brighton, that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties off Brighton, and at 3.12 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis...