LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kindly Light
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— About 5.30 on the evening of the 2nd of February, 1956, the life-boat assis- tant mechanic rang up to say that the wife of a fisherman had reported that her husband had not returned in his local fishing...
Gentle Annie
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 6.45 on the morning of the 2nd of June, 1956, the honorary secretary's son reported that the yacht Gentle Annie, of West Kirby, was flying distress signals in a danger- ous position off the north end of East Hoyle...
Jill
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — At 5.10 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that the local motor boat Jill had broken from her moorings in Holland Gap with no one on board, and was in danger of being smashed...
The S.S. Bannrose
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.2 on the evening of the 6th of October, 1952, the Formby coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Bannrose, of Liverpool, was in distress between B.I and B.2 buoys at the bar of the River Mersey, with her...
Alf Everard
Newhaven, Sussex—At 6.15 on the evening of the 2nd of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel half a mile south of East Pier was making SOS signals on a lamp and siren. At 6.40 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was...
A Small Sailing Boat
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 20th of November, 1952, the parents of two men who had left on a fishing trip in a small sailing boat that morning reported that their sons had not re- turned. At...
Provider A, Pilot Me II, Venus, Lead Us and Progress
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1953.
local fishermen reported that bad weather was making conditions dan- gerous at the harbour bar, and at 1.20 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hep- worth...
Daddy
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a small yacht anchored half a mile south-east of the pier needed help, and at 2.5 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched. The...
Coima
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 1.46 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1953, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that the Hayling Island Sail- ing Club had reported that a yacht off Chichester harbour had lost her rudder and was in...
Tinker
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.5 on the morning of the 21st of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht anchored two miles north-east of the Nore Towers had asked for a tow. At 7.30 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No...