LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Seven Stones Lightvessel
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 25th of October, 1952, the Pen:sance Superintendent of Trinity House telephoned that the wife of the master of the Seven Stones lightvessel was seriously ill and asked if the life-boat would...
Rinda, of Oslo
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 9.5 on the morning of the 17th of December, 1952, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a man had fallen over- board from the tanker Rinda, of Oslo, off Rock Ferry, and at 9.30 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett...
Escape
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.50 on the evening of the 29th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht at Pollard Spit was signalling and needed help. At 9.30 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched....
Heemskerk
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 10.27 on the morning of the 3rd of December, 1953, the Wyke Regis coastguard rang up to say that the Shambles light-vessel had reported that a vessel passing her was flying a distress signal. At 10.40 the life-boat...
Whitby Lass and Foxglove
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.16 on the morning of the 15th of January, 1954,the coastguard telephoned that a fish- ing boat appeared to be in difficulties one mile north-west of the harbour.
At 11.25 the No. 1 life-boat Mary...
Muirneag II and Bounteous
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 9.20 on the night of the 29th of March, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen in Broad Bay.
At 9.45 the life-boat William and Harriot put out. The sea was rough with a...
Jessie
FOLKESTONE.—The fishing boat Jessie, of Folkestone, left the port on the afternoon of Sunday, 26th August, and after a rough night at sea was observed on the following morning brought up off Seabrook. At 11.20 the Life-boat /. McOonnel...
Olveaga
HILBRE ISLAND.—A fisherman, observing a large steamer stranded on the East Hoyle Bank, on the morning of the 27th October, reported the circumstance,circumstance, and at 8.24 the Life-boat Admiral Biggs was launched. A moderate gale was...
The Billy Boy Annie
About 12.20 P.M. on the 10th February the Coxswain of the No. 2 Life-boat observed the Billy-boy Annie, of Grimsby, being towed over the bar outward bound, when the tow-rope suddenly broke and the Billy- boy drifted rapidly towards the North...
Cornish Lase
At about 9.30 P.M. on the 18th February, during a fresh easterly gale and very rough sea, signals of distress were observed from a vessel to the westward of Caldy Island. The Life-boat William and Mary Devey was launched, and as soon as she...