LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
For the Price of An Anchor
THE following report, sent in by the honorary secretary of an inshore rescue boat station, is just another example of failing to face up to the fact that the sea is unpredictable.
Apparently two men went out in a homemade...
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The Tongue Lightvessel
Margate, Kent. At 4.9 on the afternoon of the 21st of November, 1958, a request was received from the Chief Superinten- dent, Trinity House, for the life-boat to land a sick lamplighter from the Tongue lightvessel. The life-boat North...
Fiery X
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that the police at Worthing had reported a small sailing dinghy in difficulties one mile off Goring. At 2.50 the...
Breeda J.
Bally cotton, Co. Cork. At 2.35 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the honorary secretary received a telegram from Valentia radio station that the tanker Breeda J of Cork was aground in Cork harbour. He tele- phoned Cobh radio...
The S.S. Teeswood
Margate, Kent.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a small boat had been reported in diffi- culties one mile off Tankerton. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was...
Ambeda
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 10th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht was reported to be burning red flares a mile and a half south-east of Haisborough lightvessel. The no. 1 life-boat Henri/ Blogg...
Moonbeam, the S.S. City of Dublin and Marie Victoire
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 4.48 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1956, the Foreland coastguard rang up to say that the Cowes police had re- ported a yacht aground on the East Brambles, which was being pounded severely. The life-boat...
Harborough
Penlee, Cornwall.—At nine o'clock on the morning of the 9th of December, 1956, a message was received from a doctor that a vessel, which was making for Mounts Bay with an injured man on board, had asked for the life-boat to bring him...
A Boat
Workington, Cumberland.—At 7.-10 on the evening of the 10th of December, 1956, a message was received from the Walney coastguard that a smallboat, with four Silloth firemen on board, had put out at five o'clock from Grune Point to search...
Economy and Willing Boys
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1957, the coastguard reported that a small motor boat which had engine trouble was sheltering near Reiss Sands and that a motor fishing vessel was stand- ing by. At 3.8...